Technologies developed across multiple disciplines in the biological sciences will have a profound global impact and concurrently have the potential to revolutionize biological warfare by ...

Whether it's an astronomical discovery, news of a previously undiscovered disease or a major report about climate change, ...

A Cambridge-based program is tackling the growing threat of engineered pandemics, seeking to prevent bioweapon-driven ...

William C. Patrick III spent over three decades at Fort Detrick, Maryland, the U.S. Army's base for biological weapons research. From 1951 to 1969, he developed germ agents for warfare.

Chemical and biological warfare isn't new. Even in ancient times, war wasn't all swords and longbows. Some examples: Unrestricted use of chemical agents caused 1 million of the 26 million ...

South Korean soldiers take part in chemical, biological and radiological (CBR) warfare training at an international ferry ...

The recent outbreak of cases of anthrax in the States has brought the possibility of biological warfare just a little closer. But anthrax isn't necessarily the mass killer disease it is sometimes ...

Fildes would later claim he participated in another biological warfare project that did go forward, however: the May 1942 assassination by the British Secret Service of high-ranking Nazi leader ...

Advances in biological research likely will permit development of a new class of advanced biological warfare (ABW) agents engineered to elicit novel effects. In addition, biotechnology will have ...