@article{593968171f8a4487a0a2e850510c5858,
title = "The security implications of synthetic biology",
abstract = "Advances in synthetic biology hold great promise, but to minimise security threats, national and international regulation will need to keep pace.",
author = "Gigi Gronvall",
note = "Funding Information: While clearly useful on an industrial scale, synthetic biology can also be useful to individuals. It can yield information that would never merit a traditional research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or the Wellcome Trust. In contrast to the research funded by agencies like these, which is intended to foster benefits at a societal level, personalisation allows for the acquisition of information and products that are immediately useful to particular individuals. Scientific advances and the democratisation of synthetic biology should bring about an exciting future, but will also lead to changes in national and international security, the governance of biological research, and safety. Funding Information: The DIY Bio community would also benefit from biosafety awareness. There used to be an {\textquoteleft}ask a biosafety expert{\textquoteright} feature on the DIY Bio website, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and supported by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.51 Unfortunately, this programme has now closed due to a lack of funding.52 The Open Philanthropy Project is launching a new initiative to evaluate the safety and security of numerous DIY Bio laboratories, and to create a biosafety and biosecurity pilot programme in three DIY Bio labs. This programme will allow for the hiring of three biosafety officers for the laboratories, who will develop a list of best practices for DIY labs and co-author a biosafety manual which could be used by any DIY practitioner.53 Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 The International Institute for Strategic Studies.",
year = "2018",
month = jul,
day = "4",
doi = "10.1080/00396338.2018.1495443",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "60",
pages = "165--180",
journal = "Survival",
issn = "0039-6338",
publisher = "Routledge",
number = "4",
}