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Between Publishing and Perishing? H5N1 Research Unleashes Unprecedented Dual-Use Research Controversy
May 3, 2012 | Michael TuRecently, researchers in the Netherlands and the United States identified genetic mutations that could enable H5N1 bird flu to become easily transmissible from one human to another. Controversy has emerged about whether the details of these two particularly sensitive H5N1 studies should be openly published to aid global pandemic preparedness or withheld in the interests of national security. Because similar trade-offs will emerge frequently in the field of biotechnology, the task of devising effective management strategies for so-called "dual-use research of concern" will continue to increase in both complexity and importance.
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Dr. Peggy Hamburg testifies before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
Oct. 17, 2001 | Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D.Testimony on the biological weapons threat.
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