California shows the way for biosecurity in commercial gene synthesis

Nat Biotechnol. 2020 Sep;38(9):1021. doi: 10.1038/s41587-020-0667-0.

Authors

Rachel West¹, Gigi Kwik Gronvall²

Affiliations

¹ Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
² Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. ggronvall@jhu.edu.

PMID: 32811990
DOI: 10.1038/s41587-020-0667-0

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Animals
Biological Warfare / legislation & jurisprudence
Biological Warfare / prevention & control
Bioterrorism / prevention & control
California
Chickens
Genes, Synthetic*
Security Measures / legislation & jurisprudence*
Security Measures / standards
Synthetic Biology / legislation & jurisprudence*
Synthetic Biology / standards