It has been blamed for the almost fatal poisoning of a former Russian agent. Novichok may sound like a villain from a James Bond movie, but it’s actually a chemical weapon. The nerve agent has been ...

— -- Tabun is is a man-made chemical warfare agent that is classified as a nerve agent. It is also known as GA. What It Does Tabun is a nerve agent that interrupts the transmission of nerve ...

For more than two decades, lone actors with weapons of mass destruction ambitions have relied on crude toxins like ricin and amatoxins because plants like castor beans and mushrooms that contain these ...

The research study that took Thomas Keegan to Porton Down was led by the University of Oxford and funded by the Medical Research Council. When I first arrived at the top secret Porton Down laboratory, ...

Chemotherapy has long forced patients to choose between fighting their cancer and living with nerve pain that can linger for years after treatment ends. Now a wave of basic science and early clinical ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Uns half brother was assassinated with a lethal nerve agent manufactured for chemical warfare, Malaysian police said Friday. Releasing a preliminary toxicology report on ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Battelle and subcontractor CMC Pharmaceuticals announced today their selection by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to develop an improved nerve agent ...

Spinal injections to treat back pain are typically safe. However, side effects can occur, such as bleeding, infection, increased pain, headache, and more. Doctors may suggest spinal injections to ...