"It scares me more than the agents of bioterrorism." The world hasn't seen a pandemic flu outbreak for 35 years, Damrow said, although a pandemic occurs on an average of every 24 years.

Effective bioterrorism planning, prevention, and response require information sharing between various entities, ranging from public health authorities and health-care workers to national security ...

One example was in 2001 in America when letters laced with infectious anthrax were delivered to news and US Congress offices, causing five deaths. The potential for bioterrorism to cause ...

They might help a bioterrorism enterprise come up with some ideas and establish an initial direction, but that’s about it. Rather than chatbots, AI systems with applications in the life sciences ...

High scores could be earned, for example, by identifying the correct reagents; listing the right steps in the production process; and finding a novel way of skirting security precautions.

The examples of historical bioweapons programs and bioterrorism suggest that these maxims will likely remain the case as the bioeconomy grows. Despite the dramatic pace of discoveries in the life ...

The work on a COVID-19 vaccine is only one example of how science can mitigate against potential disasters, including cyber insecurity and the threat of bioterrorism. AP, Getty Images As he says ...

Despite this sparse historical record, the COVID pandemic has reenergized concern over bioterrorism; looking at the pandemic’s consequences—the deaths, economic contraction, and impacts on the ...

Beyond the events in colonial Salem, Massachusetts, plenty of historical examples of mass hysteria exist. Yet this phenomenon still happens in the present day, fueled partly by the internet and ...

Although chemical and biological agents are often grouped together in the context of “bioterrorism” they are technically different. Things like mustard or sarin gas are well-known examples of chemical ...