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David Hoffman: On biology: promise and peril

(Foreign Policy) We live in an age of breathtaking advances in the life sciences. Achievements in sequencing, or plotting the genetic blueprint of an organism, have been astounding, and may lead to great benefits in public health and medicine. But biological research can be dual-use: that which improves the lot of mankind can also be  Read More »

Fearing Bioterrorism, Government Panel Asks: What Research Should Be Secret?

(PBS NewsHour) Ray Suarez discusses the question that many in the science, bioterrorism and national security fields are considering with Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Bruce Alberts of the journal Science. …

Fact Sheet on the Successful Conclusion of the Seventh Review Conference of …

(Whitehouse.gov) During the next five years experts will address, inter alia, capacity-building in biosafety and biosecurity, preparedness, response, and crisis management; States Parties also decided that a database system to facilitate requests and offers for …

Outcomes Related to the 7th Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention Review …

(US Department of State) And these will include such topics as biosafety, biosecurity, preparedness, surveillance, response, and crisis management. Now, so the specifics are not covered in the final document, but of course the United States has a well established set of …

Experts Question Call to Withhold Flu Research

(Global Security Newswire) A U.S. expert panel’s apparently successful bid to halt the publication of key information from recent flu studies could pave the way for further stifling of scientific discourse, a number of virology specialists said on Wednesday, Dec. 21). The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity on Tuesday called for the journals Science  Read More »

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