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 sets of 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 (Mousepox)
- 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
- Read the primary scientific paper describing your assigned study from this list.
- Wimmer E (2006) The test-tube synthesis of a chemical called poliovirus. The simple synthesis of a virus has far-reaching societal implications. EMBO Rep 7 Spec No:S3–9.
- Herfst S et al. (2012) Airborne transmission of influenza A/H5N1 virus between ferrets. Science 336:1534–41.
- Find an article on the public response to the research that was published at the time when it occurred.