It would immediately limit the range and virulence of would-be bioweapons, discourage their development and enhance our security far more effectively than any defense program of similar costs.
The potential for the use of Clostridial neurotoxins as bioweapons makes the development of small-molecule inhibitors of these deadly toxins a top priority.
Some rickettsiae are important both as emerging pathogens [3] and as selected agents for the development of bioweapons [4].
First, scholars from the field of STS (including Kathleen Vogel and Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley, who both made presentations at the workshop 10) emphasised the sociotechnical barriers to the development of bioweapons, including tacit knowledge and organisational dimensions.
Specific local organisational structures and divisions of labour have to be developed for every stage of the bioweapons process, from research, to development, to small-scale production, large-scale production, testing and weaponisation.
The use of anthrax as a bioweapon has increased pressure for the development of an effective treatment.
We explored the d-arabinose 5-phosphate isomerase (KdsD, E.C. 5.3.1.13) from Francisella tularensis, a highly infectious Gram-negative pathogen that has raised concern as a potential bioweapon, as a target for the development of novel chemotherapeutics.
She stressed that she does not think that CABI knowingly aided the development of North Korea's bioweapons program.
Bioweapons also pose serious risks, and the development of sensors capable of rapid remote detection has been slow.
The severity of HCPS, the absence of effective treatment, its appearance in outbreaks and in case-clusters, and the potential use of hantaviruses as bioweapons have stimulated work toward hantavirus vaccine development.
