Jaime Yassif on “The Need for Better Safeguarding of Bioscience”
In a new opinion piece for The Economist, Jaime Yassif makes the case for urgent action to create stronger guardrails for bioscience and biotechnology.
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Biosecurity Innovation and Risk Reduction: A Global Framework for Accessible, Safe and Secure DNA Synthesis
The Global Health Security Index
The first comprehensive assessment of global health security capabilities in 195 countries.
Financial Incentives for Biotechnology Investors to Improve Biosecurity
Biotechnology innovation now affects nearly every sector of the global economy.
Common Mechanism to Prevent Illicit Gene Synthesis
As part of the Biosecurity Innovation and Risk Reduction Initiative, NTI launched a group to develop a Common Mechanism to Prevent Illicit Gene Synthesis
Public Private Partnerships in trust-based public health social networking: Connecting organizations for regional disease surveillance (CORDS)
A journal article describing a new trust-based global health security initiative known as CORDS: Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance.
Do Recent Scientific and Technological Advances Lower the Threshold for the Proliferation of Biological Weapons?
Assessing whether or not scientific advances in genetics and bio-technologies have lowered the threshold for the proliferation of biological weapons. (CNS)
The Biological Weapons Convention
Evolution of the Biological Weapons Convention, challenges to its legitimacy - the lack of a verification mechanism and advances in biotechnology. (CNS)