If injected, ricin causes immediate death of the muscles and lymph nodes near the site of the injection. Failure of the major organs and death usually follow.

About one million tons of castor beans are processed every year, worldwide. Ricin is part of the waste from the beans when castor oil is made. Sometimes this is called “mash.” Less than a ...

Rt. Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye and his co-accused, Hajji Obeid Lutale Kamulegeya, have formally requested Nakawa chief magistrate ...

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Southport killer Axel Rudakubana is currently receiving the legal minimum while serving 52 years at HMP Belmarsh, the ECHO ...

5 Jan: UK police find 22 castor oil beans - the raw material for the poison ricin - in a flat at 352B High Road, Wood Green, in north London. They also find equipment needed to produce ricin and ...

Two Chinese nationals were apprehended in the U.S. for allegedly smuggling a dangerous fungus, raising concerns about China's ...

Deadly plants like ricin-producing castor beans and poisonous nightshade have been used by assassins and spies for centuries.

According to a recently filed indictment, a North Dakota man attempted to inflict bodily harm upon Barack Obama over the span ...

Soligenix (NASDAQ: SNGX) is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing and commercializing treatments for rare diseases. The comp ...