A Las Vegas man already serving time was sentenced Wednesday for mailing a threatening letter to a federal judge and ...

Thailand has reported its first anthrax death in decades, prompting authorities to track hundreds of people who have ...

Right after 9/11, the FBI and Special Agent Scott Decker scramble to stop a second-wave attack using a deadly toxin. When a ...

The toxin is caused by a spore-forming bacterium, Bacillus anthracis, which survives for decades in soil where animals that died of anthrax or were carriers were buried. It is transmissible to ...

In the wake of 9/11, anthrax-laced letters unleashed a new wave of terror across the nation. But who was behind the attacks — ...

By genetically engineering parts of a protein called the anthrax toxin receptor (ATR), Young and Bradley were able to produce a form of ATR that blocks the toxin from entering cells. So far, the ...

In anthrax infections, PA acts as a gateway for 2 Bacillus anthracis toxins, lethal factor (LF) and edema factor (EF), to enter host cells. By utilizing PA proteins, the vaccination can train and ...