Biosecurity

A black biohazard symbol against a yellow and black smoke-like background.

A highly hackable US biodefense system

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, What We’re Reading

Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout via Creative Commons.

The Russian disinformation attack that poses a biological danger

By Filippa Lentzos | Biosecurity

Medical staff treat injured rebel fighters and civilians in Aleppo, Syria, in October 2012. (Photo credit: Voice of America.)

A form of biological warfare in Syria and Yemen

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, What We’re Reading

Plum pox resistant plums, created by genetic engineering.

What’s cooking for climate change? Techno-fixing dinner for 10 billion

By Pat Mooney | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies, Synthetic biology

Jennifer Exelby leads a team of chemical-agent handlers at the US Army’s Edgewood Chemical Biological Center. Photo Credit: US Army

A wearable to detect chemical weapons

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, Chemical Weapons, What We’re Reading

A transmission electron micrograph of multiple bacteriophages attached to a bacterial cell wall, shown at a magnification of approximately 200,000. Photo credit: Graham Beards

Bacteriophages: a promising approach to fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria

By Laura H. Kahn | Biosecurity, Columnists

An aphid, on a leaf.

Insect Allies to the rescue?

By John Mecklin | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies, Synthetic biology, What We’re Reading

Ground beef

But will they eat it?

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Synthetic biology, What We’re Reading

Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at the newly re-opened US Embassy in Havana in August, 2015. The embassy was largely shuttered following a mysterious attack on US diplomats in 2016.

Microwave weapons may have caused diplomats’ mystery symptoms

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Ventilator blues: Infectious disease expert Tom Inglesby on the next major pandemic

By | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

Ebola screening in Guinea in 2014.

Ebola makes a very convincing case for global cooperation

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, What We’re Reading

DARPA’s Prepare program: Preparing for what?

By Filippa Lentzos, Jez Littlewood | Biosecurity