U.S. Government to Conduct Sweeping Review of Biosecurity Policy Frameworks
The Biden Administration and National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials have initiated a review of the scope and effectiveness of ...
The Biden Administration and National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials have initiated a review of the scope and effectiveness of ...
To reduce the risk of unintended ecological consequences from environmentally deployed, genetically engineered microorganisms (GEMS), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and ...
The Department of State’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction (ISN/CTR) is funding cooperative agreements ...
When the American biotech company Tonix Pharmaceuticals announced this January that it had successfully synthesized vaccinia, no one seemed to ...
U.S. officials are weighing the benefits and risks of proposed experiments that might make a dangerous pathogen even worse — ...
In 2019, the Nuclear Threat Initiative and the World Economic Forum organized an international expert Working Group on Preventing Illicit ...
Research by Ron Fouchier in the Netherlands and Yoshihiro Kawaoka in Madison, Wisconsin marked the beginning of a "gain-of-function" research, ...
The dual-use nature of emerging biotechnology necessitates biosecurity measures in industry, particularly for the gene synthesis sector which produces DNA ...
The American Society for Microbiology’s ASM Biothreats 2018 meeting is taking place February 12-14, 2018 in Baltimore, Maryland. ASM Biothreats ...
Biosecurity professionals from across the U.S. and Mexico gathered on Arizona State University's Tempe campus Dec. 7 and 8 to ...
In accordance with the decision of the Eighth Review Conference (RevCon), the 2017 Meeting of States Parties of the Biological ...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a cooperative agreement to Massachusetts General Hospital for research and development ...
A profusion of biotechnology products is expected over the next five to 10 years, and the number and diversity of ...
The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) will convene this week on Nov. 4 in Bethesda, Maryland. The meeting ...
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is seeking nominations for a new consensus study being conducted at the ...
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will assess the changing nature of the biodefense threat in the age of synthetic ...
Research involving pathogens provides insight into the fundamental nature of human-pathogen interactions, enables the assessment of the pandemic potential of ...
Vaccines to protect against an avian influenza pandemic as well as seasonal flu may be mass produced more quickly and ...
Amid continued difficulties around assessing “dual-use” research and bioweapons threats, especially given limited empirical data, some researchers took another route ...
The U.S. Department of Defense Naval Supply Systems Command has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to support research in ...