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Six essential stories on the origins of COVID-19

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus arrive by car at the Wuhan Institute of Virology on February 3. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

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

By Nicholas Wade | Biosecurity

A biologist releases genetically modified mosquitoes in February 2016 in Piracicaba, Brazil. Technicians from the Oxitec laboratory released genetically modified mosquitoes Aedes Egypti to combat Zika virus. (Photo by Victor Moriyama/Getty Images)

Paradise altered: EPA approves first release of genetically modified mosquitoes in Florida Keys

By Taylor White | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies

An intelligence forecast and the Doomsday Clock coincide. For better or worse.

By John Mecklin | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Doomsday Clock

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WHO’s “exciting adventure” to find the origins of COVID-19 runs into trouble

By Thomas Gaulkin, Matt Field | Biosecurity

CDC director Robert Redfield CNN coronavirus interview Sanjay Gupta

Did former CDC director offer a ham sandwich theory of COVID-19? Maybe. Maybe not.

By Thomas Gaulkin | Biosecurity

The psychological pandemic: Can we confront our death anxiety?

By Robert Jay Lifton, Charles B. Strozier | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Nuclear Risk

Bill Gates shows a vaccine at UN press conference in 2011

The quest to rid Facebook of vaccine misinformation

By Dawn Stover | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

Nobel chemistry laureate Jennifer Doudna

Interview: Nobel chemistry laureate Jennifer Doudna on the promise and peril of the genetic editing revolution

By John Mecklin | Biosecurity

The placebo paradox: Why a COVID-19 vaccine trial participant might drop out

By Dawn Sinclair Shapiro | Biosecurity

Bioterrorism exercises

2005: The bioterrorist cookbook

By Malcolm Dando | Biosecurity

A screen shot of the AMY1 gene from Arabidopsis thaliana, a small flowering plant widely used as a model organism in plant biology. (US government photo)

How to protect the world from ultra-targeted biological weapons

By Filippa Lentzos | Biosecurity, Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Synthetic biology