There are natural biological materials.

It is a biological process that is natural and is not a medical illness.

Marital status Married to Mrs. Nariman BENCHAA MINDUA (Biologist).

The possibility of discovering mobile biological warfare capability is assessed as still possible but very unlikely.

Moreover, Senegal neither possesses nor produces biological weapons.

Aldo Leopold said this was a biological storm, a feathered tempest.

UNIDO also assists in the implementation of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants by providing biological solutions to replace pollutant and resource depleting technologies and by introducing bio and phyto remediation for cleaning heavily contaminated soils.

For Geremek, Polishness denoted neither a biological community nor a blood lineage.

And the message is clear large scale use of oil, coal, and gas is threatening the biology and chemistry of the planet.

This required developing a bioassay that would enable us to observe the inhibition of blood vessel growth in the presence of tumors.

There are approximately 5 1030 bacteria on Earth, forming a biomass which exceeds that of all plants and animals.

Second, there are biological and cultural differences between the inhabitants of the Cantabrian zone and those of the central Plateau.

54(3), Spring 2002 (contains a set of six articles on bioethics) Zohar, Noam J.

At present there is no universal approach to determining biological criteria for an admissible level of stock exploitation.

In addition, no evidence of biological munitions filled with dry agents was found.

They do not represent a distinct biological grouping, but rather are unified by their reliance on the aquatic environment for feeding.

Thus, those weapons were not identified as being biological munitions by the inspectors who first observed them in 1991.

Without ribosomes, traditionalists say, viruses cannot be considered biological entities comparable to other microbes.

Life events are relegated to mere triggers of an underlying biological time bomb.

Biological, geological and hydrographic surveys underwent for three days, before the pack ice forced the expedition to leave.

As was subsequently explained by Iraq, it produced liquid bacterial biological warfare agents accepting a moderate risk of airborne contamination.

United Nations inspectors found no evidence that Iraq produced dry bacterial warfare agents.

Since Iraq did not deploy any weapons systems specifically designed for the dissemination of biological aerosols, and initially did not declare the existence of any biological weapons, United Nations inspectors were not aware of nor did they identify the R 400A bombs as biological delivery munitions.

One promising approach is artificial photosynthesis, which uses non biological materials to produce fuels directly from sunlight.

Weapons The ability of viruses to cause devastating epidemics in human societies has led to the concern that viruses could be weaponised for biological warfare.

Ecdysozoa is a group of protostome animals, including Arthropoda (insects, chelicerata, crustaceans, and myriapods), nematoda, and several smaller phyla.

As was subsequently learned, Iraq produced bacterial biological warfare agents at Al Hakam with a moderate risk of airborne contamination due to the generation of aerosols.

The illegality, for example, of the possession of biological weapons in the form of munitions renders a method to account for their storage or transport as nugatory.

The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, and consequently associated domestic legislation do not specify schedules' of biological agents that could constitute biological weapons.

Nuclear disarmament can trigger progress in other weapon systems, be they conventional, chemical, biological or bacteriological weapons.

We want to be able to build technological artifacts that are maybe good for the world. We want to learn how to build biological artifacts, like people and whales and trees.

Mental illness can be of biological (e.g., anatomical, chemical, or genetic) or psychological (e.g., trauma or conflict) origin.

In Africa, and partly also in Latin America, the debate on bioethics frequently focuses on its practical relevance in the context of underdevelopment and geopolitical power relations.

Physical protection of facilities and materials where biological or chemical dual use sensitivities exist is overseen by the National Counter Terrorism and Security Office (NACTSO).

By bio terrorism, the Monitoring Team means not only the use of military bio weapons, but also the use of improvised dispersal devices or other methods to spread dangerous pathogens ranging from salmonella to smallpox, as well as attacks against bio facilities to cause the same effect.

Anyone with a little funding and a few biological specimens in a refrigerator can make thousands of postulated discoveries.

Once they were recognised as distinct biological entities they were soon shown to be the cause of numerous infections of plants, animals and even bacteria.

In line with this doctrinal framework, no weapons of mass destruction (WMD), whether chemical, biological or nuclear, have been developed, produced or acquired by the country.

The remnants of biological munitions which Iraq declared had been filled with Bacillus anthracis, botulinum toxin and aflatoxin were provided to the inspectors for verification.

For example, we now have synthetic biology to describe a hybrid of biology and chemical engineering in which scientists create biological systems that are not found in nature.

Species evolve, Darwin said, through natural selection the random selection, through competition, of biological traits favorable to survival in a world of scarce resources.

Our delegation cannot even contemplate the possibility of terrorists acquiring the wherewithal to carry out a nuclear, biological or chemical attack, owing to the ominous consequences of such an attack.

After the adoption of Security Council resolution 687 (1991), in April 1991, Iraq declared that it did not possess any biological weapons or related items.

In the area of agroindustry, UNIDO promotes the use of biotechnology to develop suitable bioprocesses, including the use of green jute as a raw material in the production of pulp and paper.

If one imagines a deviant group in some society gaining access to biological or nuclear materials, it is possible terrorists could destroy millions of lives.