Pathogens and Arms Control

Revolutionary advances in the life sciences are poised to have a transformative global impact. However, today's cutting-edge life-sciences techniques, knowledge, materials and equipment can also be deliberately or inadvertently misapplied, with potentially catastrophic effects. Several recent experiments have sparked debate over the need for stepped-up oversight of life-sciences research. With varying degrees of success, in advance of regulatory requirements industries and professional associations have acted to address societal concerns about various products and to police the conduct of practitioners of select disciplines. Life-sciences communities are currently coming to grips with how to respond to the potential for the deliberate misuse of their know-how, technology, materials and equipment

Control (management · Economics · Engineering ethics · Management · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Transformative learning · Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research · Biotechnology and Related Fields · Engineering