{"id":691,"date":"2003-05-06T03:18:59","date_gmt":"2003-05-06T03:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=691"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:34:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:34:50","slug":"anthrax-genome-decoded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"anthrax genome decoded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers have sequenced the genome of the  bacterium that causes anthrax, reports the May 1 <em>Nature.<\/em> Anthrax is  found naturally in farm animals and other mammals, and gained notoriety  when it was maliciously used to kill people through the US  mail in  2001. The sequencing will help provide targets for vaccine and drug  development. The researchers discovered that just a few genes make the  difference between deadly anthrax and the bacterium&#8217;s close, relatively  harmless relatives, <em>bacillus cereus<\/em> and <em>bacillus thurigiensis.<\/em> They also  found that <em>bacillus anthracis<\/em> contained an excess of genes for  digesting protein, suggesting that its ancestors preyed on the bodies of  insects and other animals. <em>Bacillus anthracis<\/em> contains more than 5,000  genes, with many different functions, suggesting that it can survive in  many different environments. Anthrax bacteria &#8221;are constantly ready and  exquisitely able to adapt to and exploit any environmental or  pathogenic niche that presents itself,&#8221; said Julian Parkhill  of the  Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK, and Colin Berry  of Cardiff University,  Cardiff, UK, in an accompanying article.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 5\/06\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have sequenced the genome of the bacterium that causes anthrax, reports the May 1 Nature. Anthrax is found naturally in farm animals and other mammals, and gained notoriety when it was maliciously used to kill people through the US &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=691\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}