The United Nations has defined biological warfare as the use of any living organisms (e.g. bacteria) or infective material derived from them, in order to cause disease or death in humans, animals, or plants. The effectiveness of these organisms depends...

Biological warfare, as defined by The United Nations, is the use of any living organism (e.g. bacterium, virus) or an infective component (e.g., toxin), to cause disease or death in humans, animals, or plants. In contrast to bioterrorism, biological...

Long ago humans discovered that certain animals and plants were capable of causing severe illness or death if anyone consumed them. Some were clever enough to extract liquids from these poisonous plants and tip their arrows with the poison before...

Biological agents used to threaten human life (e.g., anthrax, smallpox, or any infectious...

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Douglas Davis reveals Arafat's plan to achieve a single Palestinian state by encouraging his people to breed The moment has come for the long queue of diplomatic highwire artists to bite the bullet: there is no immediate prospect of peace between Israel and...

Paul Kraemer is an emeritus scientist with the Biological Sciences Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has authored more than ninety papers on microbiology and related fields (E-mail: kraemerl1:Our cartoon of a microbiology laboratory reflects the ultimate in nonchalance. Of course, the...

Japan's Supreme Court rejected compensation claims by Chinese victims of atrocities committed by Japan in the 1930s and 40s, which included the use of biological weapons and a massacre in the city of Nanjing, defense lawyers said Thursday.In two separate decisions made Wednesday, the top...

A proposed U.N. resolution would immediately end the work of U.N. inspection bodies which, under Saddam Hussein's regime, played a pivotal role in monitoring Iraq's nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs.Since 2005, the United States has been trying to get the Security Council to wrap...

“Virtually every major technology has been exploited not only for peaceful purposes but also for hostile ones. Must this also happen with biotechnology, which is rapidly becoming the dominant technology of our age?” —Matthew Meselson,...