Embrace experimentation in biosecurity governance
Science
.
2020 Apr 10;368(6487):138-140.
doi: 10.1126/science.aba2932.
Authors
Sam Weiss Evans
1
2
3
,
Jacob Beal
4
,
Kavita Berger
5
,
Diederik A Bleijs
6
,
Alessia Cagnetti
7
,
Francesca Ceroni
8
9
,
Gerald L Epstein
10
,
Natàlia Garcia-Reyero
11
,
David R Gillum
12
,
Graeme Harkess
13
,
Nathan J Hillson
14
,
Petra A M Hogervorst
6
,
Jacob L Jordan
15
,
Geneviève Lacroix
16
,
Rebecca Moritz
17
,
Seán S ÓhÉigeartaigh
3
,
Megan J Palmer
18
,
Mark W J van Passel
6
Affiliations
1
Program on Science, Technology, and Society, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. samuel_evans@harvard.edu.
2
Program on Emerging Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
3
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
4
Raytheon BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA, USA.
5
Gryphon Scientific, Takoma Park, MD, USA.
6
Netherlands Biosecurity Office, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands.
7
Polo d'Innovazione Genomica Genetica e Biologia (PoloGGB), Terni, Italy.
8
Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.
9
Imperial College Centre for Synthetic Biology, London, UK.
10
Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction, National Defense University, Washington, DC, USA.
11
Engineer Research and Development Center, U.S. Army, Vicksburg, MS, USA.
12
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
13
Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, UK.
14
Joint Genome Institute, U.S. Department of Energy, Berkeley, CA, USA.
15
Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington, DC, USA.
16
Centre for Biosecurity, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
17
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.
18
Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
PMID:
32273459
DOI:
10.1126/science.aba2932
No abstract available
Publication types
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
Animals
Biomedical Research*
Containment of Biohazards / methods*
Humans