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Okla. Lawmakers Want To Ban Biofuel Plant

(KOCO Oklahoma City) The beans are a promising biofuel crop but they are also the source of a deadly poison — ricin. Four men in Georgia were arrested this month on terrorism charges related to the toxin. The Tulsa World reports Oklahoma state Sen. Mike Schulz, R-Altus, …

‘Left-handed iron corkscrews’ point the way to new weapon in battle against superbugs like MRSA

(University of Warwick) Scientists at the University of Warwick have taken inspiration from corkscrew structures found in nature to develop a new weapon in the fight against infections like E-coli and MRSA. Researchers have created a new synthetic class of helix-shaped molecules which they believe could be a key tool in the worldwide battle against  Read More »

HOWEY: What does it mean to be a statesman?

(Evening News and Tribune) But it is the WMD, including biological weapons, in the possession of terrorist groups that former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates acknowledged on CBS’s 60 Minutes that “Keep me up at night.” Myers not only has worked to implement Nunn-Lugar around …

The iGEM Competition: Synthetic Biologists and Molecular Animation

(Scientific American) The competition heralds itself as the premiere undergraduate synthetic biology competition. Teams are given a kit of biological parts from the registry of standard biological parts, and they use these precursors along with new parts of their own design …

Oklahoma legislators want castor beans to be outlawed

(Tulsa World) Ricin, which can be extracted from crushed castor beans, is so potent a toxin that a dose equivalent to a few grains of salt induces a slow, agonizing death marked by vomiting and diarrhea. Most famously, ricin was used in the 1970s to assassinate a …

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