Concerns as new organisms are developed in labs and kitchens

Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health at the US Council on Foreign Relations explains the conundrum of dual-use research of concern (DURC), in which the same experiments that allow scientists to understand pandemics can also create dangerous pathogens. Combined with advances in synthetic biology and increasingly affordable technologies such as 3D printing, there is the possibility for a true biology revolution.

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