Our biosecurity is excellent. Let's keep it that way. For most of our lives, Americans have been lucky to take biosecurity for granted. We can go to the grocery store and accurately assume that food ...

A rodent biosecurity program that includes periodic evaluation of procedures used in an institution's vivarium can be used to ensure that best practices are in place to prevent a microbial pathogen ...

The Covid pandemic exacerbated fear and panic regarding the potential for a future bioterrorism agent. As the lab leak theory continues to cause debate, politicians want to be able to tell their ...

Biosafety and biosecurity are vital components of life science research. As such, funding for research with infectious agents or toxins should take into account the type of work being proposed, the ...

This capability offers enormous promise for public health, but it also illustrates how the frontiers of biology are shifting faster than traditional governance structures. Emerging technologies like ...

Mr. President, as officials, scientific experts, and the public have grappled with the potential that high-risk laboratory research could cause a pandemic like COVID-19 or worse, the study and ...

Foot-and-mouth disease now poses a high threat to Australia. This highly contagious livestock virus is sweeping Indonesia – the closest it’s been to Australia since the 1980s. A large outbreak here ...

The story so far: New age biotechnologies endow powers to understand biology better and, consequently, harness biological agents to target humans. Thus, biosecurity measures need to be upgraded.

AI is expanding our protein universe. Thanks to generative AI, it’s now possible to design proteins never before seen in nature at breakneck speed. Some are extremely complex; others can tag onto DNA ...