Sentence examples for bacterial weapon from inspiring English sources

They described research into a race-specific bacterial weapon; large-scale production of dangerous drugs; the fatal poisoning of anti-apartheid leaders, captured guerrillas, and suspected security risks; plans to spread cholera through the water supply; a plot to poison Nelson Mandela in his cell; and even a project to find ways to sterilize the country's black population.

On July 23rd, a few days after the killing of four of President Bashar Assad's most senior security enforcers by an insurgent's bomb, his spokesman made a curious statement saying that "any chemical or bacterial weapon" would never be used against fellow Syrians and would only be deployed in the event of "external aggression".

Biologists have produced viral and bacterial weapons; chemists have developed gunpowder and ever more destructive explosives; physicists have given us the power to destroy our very existence with nuclear weapons.

Although colicins are touted as one of the most intensively studied of bacterial weapons, it is clear that there is much we still don't know about how this exquisite system of biodefense evolved.

Pneumococci are able to produce millimolar H2O2 by the pyruvate oxidase SpxB as a chemical weapon against bacterial competitors and hence this pathogen can tolerate high H2O2 concentrations (Pericone et al, 2002, 2003).

The statement in the National Intelligence Estimate that "Baghdad has mobile transportable facilities for producing bacterial and toxin biological weapons agents," overstated what the intelligence reporting suggested about an Iraqi mobile biological weapons effort and did not accurately convey to readers the uncertainties behind the source reporting.

Antibiotics are not just weapons against bacterial competitors, but also natural signalling molecules.

These findings therefore suggest that the LES phages are effectively acting as weapons in bacterial warfare.

Our leading weapons against bacterial infections are β-lactams, which kill bacteria by inhibiting transpeptidases during bacterial cell-wall biosynthesis.

Therefore it is suggested that natural products from N. corniger could be used as a source of zoo-derived natural products with modifying antibiotic activity to aminoglycosides, being a new weapon against the bacterial resistance to antibiotics.

Antibiotics are still the most potent weapon to treat bacterial infections, but the evolution of resistance is becoming increasingly problematic both in hospitals (Kutateladze and Adamia 2010) and in agriculture (Johnston 2002).