An automatic and portable detector that takes just fifteen minutes to analyze a sample suspected of contamination with anthrax is being developed by U.S. researchers. The technology amplifies any ...

Nowadays, many people associate anthrax with bioterrorism. Indeed, the anthrax bacteria is "one of the biological agents most likely to be used" in terrorism, according to the Centers for Disease ...

It was the biggest manhunt in FBI history. So it's not surprising that investigators took all kinds of extraordinary measures to try to figure out who mailed the anthrax-filled letters that killed ...

Anthrax was discovered today, for the first time, in a House of Representatives office building. And anthrax anxiety spread in every direction. Today's discovery came as no surprise to ...

The trains that carry millions of people in and around New York City every day are also teeming with thousands of bacteria species—a parade of life forms too small to see, including traces of bubonic ...