Dual-Use Life Science Research and Biosecurity in the 21st Century: Social, Technical, Policy, and Ethical Challenges

• Main Author: Jonathan E Suk (auth)
• Other Authors: Amanda Jane Ozin (auth), Kathleen M Vogel (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Medicine; H5N1; biosecurity; Synthetic Biology; Public Health; Dual Use; avian influenza; Bioterrorism
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In September 2011, scientists announced new experimental findings that would not only threaten the conduct and publication of influenza research, but would have significant policy and intelligence implications. The findings presented a modified variant of the H5N1 avian influenza virus (hereafter re...