Biosecurity

Soldier donning a gas mask.

The Biological Weapons Convention protocol should be revisited

By Lynn C. Klotz | Biosecurity, Opinion

A heard of cows walks in the country.

How human and animal excrement harm the planet’s ecosystem

By Laura H. Kahn | Analysis, Biosecurity

A colorized scanning electron micrograph of a white blood cell eating an antibiotic resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, commonly known as MRSA. Source: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

The existential threat of antimicrobial resistance

By Saskia Popescu | Biosecurity, Doomsday Clock, Technology and Security

Smallpox virus virions. Credit: Fred Murphy / Sylvia Whitfield / CDC.

An explosion rocked a Russian research facility known for housing the smallpox virus

By Matt Field | Biosecurity, What We’re Reading

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Is there a role for the Biological Weapons Convention in oversight of lab-created potential pandemic pathogens?

By Lynn C. Klotz | Analysis, Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

Hey, let’s fight global pandemics by maybe starting one… Say WHAT?

By Thomas Gaulkin | Biosecurity, Multimedia, Say What?

person on top of crates of medical supplies

What the future may hold for the Strategic National Stockpile for Biodefense

By Dina Weilhammer, Thomas Bates | Analysis, Biosecurity, Explain This, Technology and Security

Richard Lugar with Barack Obama in 2005 at a Russian base where mobile launch missiles were being destroyed by the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. At the time, Lugar was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Obama was a member of the committee.

Farewell to American statesman Richard Lugar

By Dawn Stover | Biosecurity, Chemical Weapons, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Will splashy philanthropy cause the biosecurity field to focus on the wrong risks?

By Filippa Lentzos | Biosecurity, Columnists

Illustration by Matt Field.

Gene-editing on autopilot: What could go wrong?

By Matt Field | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

A CDC staff microbiologist examines reconstructed 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus contained at a Biosafety Level 3-enhanced lab. Photo credit: Photo Credit: James Gathany/CDC

Human error in high-biocontainment labs: a likely pandemic threat

By Lynn Klotz | Analysis, Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

Supplementary material for “Human error in high-biocontainment labs: a likely pandemic threat”

By Lynn Klotz | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies