Still coping with the residue from Soviet-era bioweapons programs, Central Asian scientists are using foreign assistance to improve their region's disease surveillance capabilities.
The U.S. government is exploring using a bevy of advanced neuroscience technologies to support security-related missions--but at what cost?
Building synthetic pathogens may be the easiest way to spread certain diseases, but it wouldn't be easy.
In the places around the globe where new diseases are most likely to emerge, the infrastructure to detect outbreaks is severely lacking.
When re-upping nanotech R&D funding, Congress should account for the positive impact sound risk and safety assessments would have on the field and the public.
Three ways new U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon can prevent terrorists from using biological weapons.