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A Glycoprotein-Based Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy–Lateral Flow Assay Method for Abrin and Ricin Detection

Toxins
Abrin and ricin, both type II ribosome-inactivating proteins, are toxins of significant concern and are under international restriction by the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.
Lan Xiao, Li Luo, Jia Liu, Luyao Liu, Han Han, Rui Xiao, Lei Guo, Jianwei Xie, Li Tang   +8 more
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Recommended Immunological Assays to Screen for Ricin-Containing Samples

Toxins, 2015
Ricin, a toxin from the plant Ricinus communis, is one of the most toxic biological agents known. Due to its availability, toxicity, ease of production and absence of curative treatments, ricin has been classified by the Centers for Disease Control and ...
Stéphanie Simon, Sylvia Worbs, Marc-André Avondet, Dobryan M. Tracz, Julie Dano, Lisa Schmidt, Hervé Volland, Brigitte G. Dorner, Cindi R. Corbett   +8 more
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The role of the Biological Weapons Convention in disease surveillance and response [PDF]

Health Policy and Planning, 2010
This article assesses the role and significance of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) with respect to infectious disease surveillance and response to outbreaks. Increasingly, the BWC is being used as a platform for addressing infectious disease threats arising naturally as well as traditional concerns about malicious dissemination of pathogenic ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Antinomies of Nativism: Understanding Decoloniality Theory's Affinities with the Global Far Right

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the peculiar conjuncture of decolonial theory and contemporary far‐right ideology. It argues that their shared fixation on the dualism of native and settler is immanent to the development of advanced capitalism, particularly the sharpening of its contradictory tendency to undermine labour as the source of value, and to ...
Aylin Bademsoy, Neil Larsen
wiley   +1 more source

Strategies to strengthen biosecurity regulation in the ASEAN region and the United States: Approaches and implications

Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity
The rise of biological threats, such as new infectious diseases, including coronavirus disease (COVID-19), bioterrorism and unregulated biotechnology use, shows that it is critical for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region to have ...
Noor Dzuhaidah Osman, Mohd.Kamarulnizam Abdullah   +1 more
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Nutritional Stress Modulates Developmental Thresholds in a Male Dimorphic Mite

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
Global warming can alter nutrition during development, but whether this affects phenotype expression solely through changes in condition or also through developmental decision‐making remains unclear. In the male‐dimorphic bulb mite Rhizoglyphus robini, nutritional stress shifted the developmental threshold for fighter versus scrambler expression and ...
Isabel M. Smallegange
wiley   +1 more source

“I Self‐Protect to Avoid Child Protection”: Transgender Parents' Fears of Help‐Seeking and Social Service Systems

Family Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This mixed‐methods study examined transgender (trans) parents' concerns about being targeted and reported to child protective services by schools, health care providers, neighbors, and family members. Background Trans people and parents specifically may be experiencing heightened fears about interfacing with sources of potential ...
Abbie E. Goldberg, Elizabeth R. Boskey, JuliAnna Z. Smith, Ariel K. Berman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strength‐Based Parenting and Relationship Quality in Latine Families Facing Justice System Risk

Family Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To examine whether parenting practices that are shaped by culturally embedded value systems (responsiveness, autonomy granting, and affective warmth) and familism are associated with parent–adolescent relationship quality among Latine youth, and whether these associations differ by youth justice involvement and gender.
Caitlin Cavanagh, Natasha Chlebuch, April Gile Thomas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Company‐Sponsored Fertility Benefits: A Gift‐Exchange and Contextual Intersectionality Informed “FAiRE” Framework Guiding Design and Implementation

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Managing the work‐fertility interface is a major challenge for organizations when implementing fertility policies. These policies cover a broad spectrum of areas including clinical treatments, preservation and storage of eggs and sperm, preimplantation and diagnostics, and non‐clinical family‐building assistance. They also differ from standard
Clíodhna MacKenzie, Thomas Garavan, Elaine O'Brien   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The variability of giraffe skull morphology

Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
What does giraffe skull shape tell us about their development and evolution? Abstract Giraffe (Giraffa spp.) are among the most unique and charismatic extant animals, largely due to their distinct morphology. The evolutionary and developmental origin of ossicones is a key factor in giraffid biology, yet other features building their characteristic head
Nikolaos Kargopoulos, Jesús Marugán‐Lobón, Anusuya Chinsamy‐Turan, Bernard R. Agwanda, Michael Butler Brown, Stephanie Fennessy, Sara Ferguson, Rigardt Hoffman, Fredrick Lala, Arthur Muneza, Ogeto Mwebi, Moses Otiende, Alice Petzold, Sven Winter, Abdoul Razack Moussa Zabeirou, Julian Fennessy   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source