Biosecurity

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

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

By | 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?

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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

A nurse prepares a measles vaccine. Cases of the disease increased by 30 percent globally from 2016 to 2017. (Photo credit: Pete Lewis / Department for International Development)

From Africa to America, lack of public trust makes disease outbreaks worse

By Laura H. Kahn | Biosecurity, Columnists

Making sense of the 2018 National Biodefense Strategy

By Rachel Bartholomew, Kristin Omberg | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

Biological researcher He Jiankui (right) attends the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing at the University of Hong Kong on November 28, 2018 in Hong Kong, China. Photo by Zhang Wei/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images.

Brave new world with Chinese characteristics

By Yangyang Cheng | Analysis, Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies