May premium magazine: Early warnings and near misses

Biosecurity

There’s a ‘ChatGPT’ for biology. What could go wrong?

By Sean Ekins, Filippa Lentzos, Max Brackmann, Cédric Invernizzi | Biosecurity

A US national labs researcher studying viruses.

How to tell biodefense from an offensive bioweapons program

By Dan Regan, Rhys Dubin | Biosecurity

Watch the latest update on the labs studying the world’s most dangerous pathogens

By Erik English | Biosecurity

An anthrax-laced letter.

The Biden administration overestimates radiological terrorism risks and underplays biothreats

By Zachary Kallenborn | Biosecurity

The real horrors of ‘The Last of Us’ may already be here

By Erik English | Biosecurity

A House hearing on the origins of COVID.

A House subcommittee investigating COVID-19’s origins hears from a former CDC head and other prominent witnesses

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

Can a 1975 bioweapons ban handle today’s biothreats?

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

A covid test.

How to minimize COVID’s impacts once the federal emergency “ends”

By Lynn Klotz, Jonas Sandbrink | Biosecurity

One year of war in Ukraine

By Erik English | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Multimedia, Nuclear Risk

The smallpox virus.

Private-sector research could pose a pandemic risk. Here’s what to do about it

By Gerald L. Epstein | Biosecurity

UN Secretary-General: “the Doomsday Clock is a global alarm clock”

By François Diaz-Maurin | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk

A mink

Mink on a Spanish farm caught bird flu. Is the virus adapting to mammals?

By Matt Field | Biosecurity