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A newspaper with advice for staying safe during the 1918 influenza pandemic.

MIT researchers ordered and combined parts of the 1918 pandemic influenza virus. Did they expose a security flaw?

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

Seth Lederman, the CEO of Tonix against a backdrop of vaccinia virus.

A biotech firm made a smallpox-like virus on purpose. Nobody seems to care

By Gregory D. Koblentz | Disruptive Technologies, Synthetic biology

Research on smallpox continues today. Photo credit: Centers for Disease Control

Synthetic biology: A call for a new culture of responsibility

By Ali Nouri, Shahram Seyedin-Noor | Opinion, Synthetic biology

The bright side of synthetic biology and Crispr

By , Shannon Fye-Marnien | Uncategorized

IARPA Director Jason Matheny advances tech tools for US espionage

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies, Interviews, Special Topics, Technology and Security

Industry self-governance: A new way to manage dangerous technologies

By Stephen M. Maurer, Sebastian von Engelhardt | Uncategorized

Back to the future: Controlling synthetic life science trade in DNA sequences

By Gabrielle Samuel, Michael J. Selgelid, Ian Kerridge | Uncategorized