mBio (Oct 2021)

Rapid Proliferation of Pandemic Research: Implications for Dual-Use Risks

  • Sriharshita Musunuri,
  • Jonas B. Sandbrink,
  • Joshua Teperowski Monrad,
  • Megan J. Palmer,
  • Gregory D. Koblentz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01864-21
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 5

Abstract

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The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the world’s vulnerability to biological catastrophe and elicited unprecedented scientific efforts. Some of this work and its derivatives, however, present dual-use risks (i.e., potential harm from misapplication of beneficial research) that have largely gone unaddressed.