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Biosecurity

Disease surveillance in birds.

Creating dangerous viruses in the lab is a bad way to guard against future pandemics

By Laura H. Kahn | Biosecurity

A photo shared on Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny's instagram account shows Alexey Navalny on a hospital bed surrounded by his wife and two children as his treatment continues at Charite Hospital in Berlin, Germany on September 15, 2020. Navalny was poisoned, German doctors from a clinic where he is being treated announced. (Photo by Alexey Navalny Instagram Account /Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The Navalny poisoning: Moscow evades accountability and mocks the Chemical Weapons Convention

By Oliver Meier, Alexander Kelle | Analysis, Biosecurity

A health care worker.

The origin of COVID-19: Evidence piles up, but the jury’s still out

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

A dose of COVID-19 vaccine.

Do-it-yourself vaccines in a pandemic: democratized science or home-brewed pipe dream?

By Yong-Bee Lim | Analysis, Biosecurity

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

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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

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)

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