Eroding norms over release of self-spreading viruses

Science. 2022 Jan 7;375(6576):31-33. doi: 10.1126/science.abj5593. Epub 2022 Jan 6.

¹ Departments of Global Health and Social Medicine and of War Studies, King's College London, London, UK.
² Biopharming Research Unit, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
³ Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), Bonn, Germany.
⁴ Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁵ Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁶ Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany.

Abstract

Risky research on lab-modified self-spreading viruses has yet to present credible paths to upsides.