Alors que les premiers virus conçus par IA viennent d’être décrits par une équipe américaine, le géant Anthropic annonce avoir été confronté à des tentatives de détournement de ses modèles pour créer ...

Countries could soon begin shaping the contours of a verification system for the global treaty banning bioweapons–something the Biological Weapons Convention, which entered into force in 1975, still…

Anthony Fauci's US senate committee hearings were a chilling political circus. Fauci, the 85-year-old retired Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID; part of the ...

Current trends make clear that biosecurity will become much more challenging over the next several years. We must act strategically to secure biology—before it becomes a general-purpose technology. Dr...

More than six years after the emergence of Covid-19, no one is keeping track of the risky virus experiments that are capable of starting a pandemic.

Research is outpacing regulation to govern artificial-intelligence-designed biology

Researchers say breakthrough offers hope for new medicines but also raises urgent biosecurity questions

Dr Filippa Lentzos of King’s College London has been appointed to advise the Government of Canada on strengthening biosecurity, health emergency preparedness and the responsible development of the lif...

La directora de Inteligencia Nacional de Estados Unidos, Tulsi Gabbard, publicó un post con un vídeo en Twitter (ahora X)…

Bacteria created using mirror images of natural biomolecules would pose a grave threat to life on Earth, some researchers warn, but a new study suggests they would struggle to survive in the wild

Synthetic biologists were tantalized by the idea of making mirror images of microbes. Then things got complicated.

Measures meant to mitigate human-made biological risks remain anchored in conceptual frameworks like arms control agreements and export controls. These are increasingly misaligned with the challenges ...

Report: Disinformation diplomacy

The overall aim of this project is to strengthen the preparedness against the full spectrum of biological threats, by increasing awareness and best practices for effective and harmonised total defence...

British preparedness is strongest where science is concerned and weakest where systems meet politics

A new tool allows us to visualize how disinformation campaigns originating in places like the halls of the Russian Ministry of Defence can end up circulating on Fox News or in international diplomatic...

Blaise Metreweli, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service on how SIS is keeping the UK safe in a world where the rules of conflict are being rewritten.