| Public health workers throughout the NHS have been alerted to be on the lookout for symptoms of ricin exposure in patients. |
|
| And they could spread death and destruction through warheads carrying anthrax, mustard gas, sarin or ricin. |
|
| French sources claim that samples of Benchellali's ricin have been found in the UK and say several jars are unaccounted for. |
|
| The deadly poison ricin was stored, with a blowgun and darts, in a plastic bag in the family room. |
|
| A small amount of the material recovered from the Wood Green premises has tested positive for the presence of ricin poison. |
|
| Castor plants that are free of ricin and allergens could renew interest in farming this crop. |
|
| An operative of the Bulgarian secret police stabbed him with an umbrella, the point of which had been poisoned with ricin. |
|
| At this point, no one has exhibited symptoms of exposure to ricin, a deadly derivative of the castor bean. |
|
| Those three components together tell you that you have mashed castor beans, not ricin. |
|
| The assumption is that if ricin were weaponized, it would be treated like anthrax spores and dispersed for maximum effect. |
|
| One initial test conducted at the scene came back positive for the presence of ricin, a toxin made from the castor bean. |
|
| It was the news desk in London asking me to get into work to cover the story that ricin had been found on Capitol Hill. |
|
| A small amount or ricin or VX nerve gas or anthrax can kill a very large number of people. |
|
| There is currently no antidote to ricin poisoning, but people exposed to moderate doses have recovered. |
|
| Signs and symptoms of ricin poisoning depend on whether a person inhales or ingests ricin. |
|
| Rather than just binding to ribosomes and gumming them up, ricin is actually an enzyme all by itself. |
|
| There was a previous radiation study of ricin, a dimeric molecule linked by a single disulfide bridge. |
|
| Because castor beans are readily available, public health officials warn that ricin could be used for terrorism. |
|
| Inside the flat, police found traces of ricin, castor oil beans and equipment for crushing the beans. |
|
| After being derived from the castor oil plant Ricinus communis, the ricin is most likely to first be in a powder form, though it can be used in an aerosol. |
|
|
|
| Meanwhile, the biological toxin ricin has been discovered in several terrorist workshops. |
|
| A recent case involving ricin in the United Kingdom demonstrates how easy it is to produce biological agents. |
|
| Studies have been performed on ricin as a possible anticancer agent. |
|
| Walter returns to the house to retrieve the vile of ricin he hid there in the previous finale. |
|
| What happened besides the Boston Marathon bombing, ricin attacks, and the massive Texas explosion? |
|
| Once again, cable news channels are wall to wall with bombing and ricin coverage. |
|
| He also had an encounter with Roger Wicker, one of the recipients of the ricin letters. |
|
| It is worth mentioning that ricin plots have been associated with domestic militia groups in the recent past. |
|
| It could be anywhere from four to 24 hours after being exposed to ricin before any of the initial symptoms occur. |
|
| The main line of investigation is reportedly an effort to conduct DNA testing to determine the geographic origin of the castor bean plant from which the ricin is derived. |
|
| Although ricin can be purified through chemical extraction processes from castor beans, the material found in these jars was far less toxic than purified ricin. |
|
| One million tons of castor beans are processed to produce castor oil every year and the waste from this process is approximately five per cent ricin. |
|
| The toxins that have been used to produce immunotoxins include ricin, Shigella toxin and diphtheria toxin. |
|
| In 2002, an Islamist plot to poison the London underground with ricin was foiled as well. |
|
| Two biological warfare agents, botulinum toxin and ricin, were used in several unsuccessful bioterror attacks. |
|
| Canada expanded from mustard gas into research developing out toxins such as ricin. |
|
| And at the NRL, Cy Tamanaha has had similar success detecting ricin, staphylococcal enterotoxin B and other potential bioweapons. |
|
| Dermal exposure of ricin is of little concern because the absorption amount is insignificant unless it is enhanced with a strong solvent such as dimethyl sulfoxide. |
|
| Another dangerous protein in castor bean seeds is RCA, which is much less toxic than ricin. |
|
| A MAN who sparked a security alert by claiming to have consumed deadly ricin in a court had in fact taken castor seeds. |
|
|
|
| Unlike anthrax, which can be treated by antibiotics, ricin has no antidote and is lethal to humans in quantities smaller than the size of a pinhead. |
|
| The Jequirity bean bracelets carry a chemical similar to biological warfare chemical ricin in the deadly seeds which form part of the jewellery. |
|
| The computer showed that Ali had begun searching Google in October last year for poisons such as abrin, ricin and cyanide. |
|
| Exposing that paper to fluorescent ricin, a poison that sticks to galactose, showed that the poison was present. |
|
| The toxin may be any suitable toxin such as ricin, diphtheria, abrin, or gelonin. |
|
| Entry of the toxic proteins abrin, modeccin, ricin, and diphtheria toxin into cells. |
|
| In particular, Al Qaida was found to be pursuing a sophisticated biological weapons research program focussing on such agents as anthrax, ricin, and botulinum toxin. |
|
| When ricin, nicotine, solanine and other poisons have come up in the context of terrorism, it has almost always been with respect to the food supply. |
|
| Since the First World War, ricin has had a frightening reputation as a bioweapon. |
|
| Prosecutors said investigators learned that she had purchased materials online to produce ricin, a toxin that can cause respiratory failure if inhaled, the report said. |
|
| Unrefined castor oil, also called the Palma Christi, contains ricin from the castor bean, a counterirritant with marvelous lymphatic-stimulating and pain-relieving properties. |
|
| A COMPUTER geek has been jailed for eight years for trying to buy deadly ricin poison from the Dark Web after being inspired by the hit US television series Breaking Bad. |
|
| Fodstad O, Olsnes S, Pihl A Inhibitory effect of abrin and ricin on the growth of transplantable murine tumors and of abrin on human cancers in nude mice. |
|
