Preface Biological Toxins—Ancient Molecules Posing a Current Threat

Preface Biological Toxins—Ancient Molecules Posing a Current Threat

Based on their characteristics, biological toxins are at the interface of classical biological and chemical agents: for example, ricin and saxitoxin are prohibited substances under both the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological Weapons Convention. The latter also prohibits bacterial toxins such as botulinum neurotoxins (BoNT) and staphylococcal enterotoxins (SE). Generally, biological ...

Reporter Fluorescent Molecules in Biological Systems: The Current Overview

Volume 1 • Issue 4 • 1000e111 Biochem Anal Biochem ISSN:2161-1009 Biochem, an open access journal Labeling molecules without losing its activity has a long track in science. The first labeling method for detection of the biomolecules was the use of radioisotope entities like 32P, which have been successfully employed to study protein–protein, protein–DNA, protein–RNA and protein–ligand interact...

Tuberculosis bacilli still posing a threat. Polymorphism of genes regulating anti-mycobacterial properties of macrophages.

One third of the earth's population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but only 5-10% of the infected individuals will develop active disease over their lifetime. To identify the genes responsible for the variation in the human susceptibility/resistance to tuberculosis (TB) we determined the polymorphisms of three genes crucial for the function of macrophages, in TB patients and healt...

The Biological Warfare Threat

Antimicrobial resistance: addressing the threat to global health. Preface.