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Mashup Score: 3MIT researchers ordered and combined parts of the 1918 pandemic influenza virus. Did they expose a security flaw? - 6 month(s) ago
The authors of a new study were able to order all the synthetic genes necessary to reconstruct the 1918 pandemic influenza virus. Do their findings represent a security flaw in a critical area of biotechnology?
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Mashup Score: 15Republicans and Democrats investigating the origins of COVID-19 find a common target: Peter Daszak - 7 month(s) ago
In a congressional COVID origins investigation that mostly sees Republicans and Democrats divided, both parties had ample criticism for the chief of a US-funded nonprofit that funneled money for controversial coronavirus research to a lab in Wuhan, China.
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“‘It’s possible perhaps that you’re framing issues in a way that is most favorable to you and less so in a way that’s confronting the science at any given moment. And that is just a concern,’” the counsel for the subcommittee’s Democrats told Daszak.” https://t.co/s2XWB4tUbr
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Pretend ‘bad guys’ can help spot ways AI could be used to create biological threats. But only if done right.
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“so far there have been no reported biological misuse examples involving AI..that have recently filled news headlines. This lack of real-world wrongdoing prevents direct evaluation of the changing threat landscape at the intersection of AI and biology” https://t.co/jLWsUrUf5k
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Mashup Score: 4How the Biological Weapons Convention could verify treaty compliance - 8 month(s) ago
While chemical and nuclear weapons treaties have systems to verify compliance, the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), a global pact banning bioweapons, does not. Now, as technologies such as genome editing and AI converge and accelerate, placing powerful capabilities in the hands of a growing number of actors, treaty members are once again discussing the topic of verifying compliance with the treaty.
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How the Biological Weapons Convention could verify treaty compliance - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists via Dr. @RevillJames https://t.co/GHjaPfBeBU
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Mashup Score: 35Climate change fueled a rise in rare disease outbreaks last year - 10 month(s) ago
The temperature-sensitive pathogens that caught U.S. communities off guard are a grim preview of the future.
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Climate change fueled a rise in rare disease outbreaks last year https://t.co/3hIYJFCVmi via @BulletinAtomic
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Mashup Score: 289A new study reports 309 lab acquired infections and 16 pathogen lab escapes between 2000 and 2021 - 11 month(s) ago
A new study reported 309 laboratory-acquired or -associated infections between 2000 and 2021 and 16 instances of a pathogen “escaping” from a laboratory setting. These figures could be the “tip of the iceberg,” the authors write.
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A new report in the journal “The Lancet Microbe” provides details on 309 lab acquired infections and 16 times that pathogens escaped from labs between the years 2000 and 2021 h/t @syramadad https://t.co/FWar90lCud
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Mashup Score: 2Doomsday Clock - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - 1 year(s) ago
It is 90 seconds to midnight.
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When you discover that the Doomsday Clock from #Watchmen... really exists! And it doesn't back down... #DoomsdayClock 🕙☢️ #Atomic https://t.co/0WHFNoba8X https://t.co/azMUGtVZV7
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Mashup Score: 6Building information resilience to reinforce arms control - 1 year(s) ago
Disinformation campaigns undermine arms control regimes and norms. Here are five ways to build information resilience and spread truthful information that prevents lies from taking root.
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“A community that is well-informed and able to discern fact from fiction will be more resilient because fabricated information is less readily accepted and spread as fact, minimizing its disruptive power.” https://t.co/9U6qOwK8Du
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“Our results demonstrate that nearly all DNA synthesis screening practices employed in October of 2023 failed to reject lightly disguised orders that could be assembled to produce viable select agents, including a pandemic virus,” https://t.co/V32Qa3RzLQ