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A ferret.

The grave risk of lab-created potentially pandemic pathogens

By Lynn C. Klotz | Biosecurity

Air quality surveillance and control: How to improve the response to all respiratory diseases, COVID-19 included

By Laura H. Kahn | Analysis, Biosecurity

Intelligence community investigation unable to reach consensus on the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic

By John Mecklin | Analysis, Biosecurity

trump blowing coronavirus dandelion covid pandemic

trump blowing coronavirus dandelion covid pandemic

Rejecting survival: How Trumpist denials of the COVID catastrophe impede recovery and renewal

By Robert Jay Lifton | Analysis, Biosecurity

White House press briefing on coronavirus

White House press briefing on coronavirus

Reporting on science in today’s hyperpolitical environment

By Herbert Lin | Analysis, Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

A bus carrying a team of experts from the World Health Organization departs an airport in Wuhan on Jan. 14, 2021, after arriving in the Chinese city to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. That investigation is widely seen as having been obstructed by Chinese authorities. (Photo by Kyodo News via Getty Images)

A bus carrying a team of experts from the World Health Organization departs an airport in Wuhan on Jan. 14, 2021, after arriving in the Chinese city to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. That investigation is widely seen as having been obstructed by Chinese authorities. (Photo by Kyodo News via Getty Images)

How COVID-19’s origins were obscured, by the East and the West

By Nicholas Wade | Analysis, Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

How UNSCOM found and destroyed Iraq’s biological weapons

By Filippa Lentzos, Henrietta Wilson | Biosecurity

Monitoring Iraq’s dual-use capabilities: An interview with Gabriele Kraatz-Wadsack

By Filippa Lentzos | Biosecurity

A researcher inspects protective gear.

A researcher inspects protective gear.

How to make sure the labs researching the most dangerous pathogens are safe and secure

By Joseph Rodgers, Filippa Lentzos, Gregory D. Koblentz, Minh Ly | Biosecurity

This picture, taken on November 27, 2018, shows biologist and summit chair David Baltimore (center right) of the California Institute of Technology speaking at a press conference during the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong. (Getty Images/AFP)

This picture, taken on November 27, 2018, shows biologist and summit chair David Baltimore (center right) of the California Institute of Technology speaking at a press conference during the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong. (Getty Images/AFP)

Caltech’s David Baltimore discusses the debate over origins of SARS-CoV-2

By Lori Dajose | Biosecurity

Watch now—The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?

By Halley Posner | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies, Multimedia

A biosafety level 4 lab.

A biosafety level 4 lab.

How to make biomedical research (and biosafety labs) less dangerous and more ethical, post-COVID-19

By Laura H. Kahn | Biosecurity