Dual-Use Research (Biotechnology and Society 2016)
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Required Reading/Viewing
Watch video (~7 min) Dual Use Research: A Dialogue (NIH Office of Science Policy)
Choose ONE among these four dual-use case study readings. The first three are from the (Federation of American Scientists) website (Federation of American Scientists).
- Module 2.0 Synthesizing Poliovirus
- Module 4.0 Unexpected Results in Virus Research
- Module 7.0 Reconstruction of the 1918 Influenza Virus
- Airborne H5N1 flu study
- Enserink M (2012) Avian influenza. Public at last, H5N1 study offers insight into virus’s possible path to pandemic. Science 336:1494–1497. PMID: 22723387 Read at Science
- Maher B (2012) Bird-flu research: The biosecurity oversight. Nature 485:431-434. PMID: 22622550 Read at Nature
Czars
- Find the primary literature describing the . If there are multiple papers, you may choose one.
Required Reading
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Describes the chemical synthesis of polio virus and the implications for bioterrorism. - Error fetching PMID 22723413:
Main scientific paper demonstrating how specific mutations lead H5N1 to become airborne transmissible in ferrets.
Additional Background
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- History of Bioterrorism (Texas Department of State Health Services)
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More discussion of the context of the publication of the airborne H5N1 research. - American Anthrax Investigation Documents (FBI)
Report on the anthrax case where letters containing spores were sent to government officials after 9/11/2001.