Tag: biosecurity

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Brewing bad: yeast >> opiates

  http://www.nature.com/news/drugs-regulate-home-brew-opiates-1.17563

The need to safeguard the bioeconomy

Biology as a manufacturing technology could well be the key to a more resilient, sustainable development agenda […]Whilst preventing the malign use of such a capacity will be one factor, there are a host of other issues that will need to be address in our national oversight frameworks, including the impact on: energy security; resource …

Report on Big Data in the Life Sciences: Challenges, Risks and Rewards

Read National and Transnational Security Implications of Big Data in the Life Sciences by AAAS/FBI/UNICRI, 2014 http://www.aaas.org/report/national-and-transnational-security-implications-big-data-life-sciences

DNA on the cloud (+ Google)

‘Google invites geneticists to upload DNA data to cloud’ http://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/Google-invites-geneticists-to-upload-DNA-data-to-5325793.php and the PR http://www.fiercebiotech.com/press-releases/dnanexus-secures-15-million-series-c-financing-accelerate-commercialization   The company DNAnexus (www.dnanexus.com) “DNAnexus is powering the genomics revolution with an enterprise-level solution that combines cloud computing with advanced bioinformatics. The DNAnexus team is made up of experts in software, computational biology, and genetics who are on a mission …

Keeping Science in the Right Hands: Policing the New Biological Frontier

An excellent article by Ronald K. Noble http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140157/ronald-k-noble/keeping-science-in-the-right-hands