linkedin post 2014-03-26 07:45:39
US INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE threat assessment for 2014, by threat type and geography. http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/DNIthreats2014.pdf View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2014-03-26 07:43:26
CYBERWARFARE AS LEADING INDICATOR OF BIOWARFARE http://lnkd.in/dnjsN5T View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2014-03-26 07:39:56
CYBERWARFARE AS LEADING INDICATOR OF BIOWARFARE. "During the past century, more than 500 million people died of infectious diseases. Several tens of thousands of these deaths were due to the deliberate release of pathogens or toxins ... Two international treaties outlawed biological weapons ... have largely failed to stop countries from conducting offensive weapons research." http://lnkd.in/dnjsN5T View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2014-03-26 07:37:31
CYBERWARFARE is the subject for consideration in the next series of blogs for one reason only: it is probable that developments in the cyber world will quite quickly be matched by similar biological developments, just as was the case in cybercrime and future biocrime. View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2014-03-25 06:05:18
SYNBIO AND BW THREATS. The preceding set of posts presents an optimistic picture of SYNBIO, combined with DNA vaccines as a highly responsive response to a BW threat, and if combined with proactive blood screening for novel viral strains, can provide an improved preparedness. View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2014-03-25 06:03:05
DARPA WANTS TO TRANSFORM VACCINES MANUFACTURE. "The Prophecy program seeks to transform the vaccine and drug development enterprise from observational and reactive to predictive and preemptive by spurring development of a multidisciplinary approach to predicting viral evolution." It's 2015 total requested budget is $2.9 Bn. http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/DSO/Programs/Prophecy_(Pathogen_Defeat).aspx View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2014-03-28 05:51:00
PANDEMIC AGREEMENTS. "A special pandemic-prevention agreement was hammered out and approved by the World Health Assembly ... in 2011. But by 2012, fewer than 35 countries had managed to comply ... and many samples of H5N1 and other pathogens of concern had yet to be shared with global authorities and databases." http://lnkd.in/dyGvsfW View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2014-03-25 06:00:15
VIRUSES: DARPA'S CLEAR TARGET OF BIOSECURITY. "According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in the past 20 years, out of the newly recognized pathogens that impact human and animal health, approximately 44 percent are viruses." http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/DSO/Programs/Prophecy_(Pathogen_Defeat).aspx View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2014-03-28 05:48:18
DUAL USE RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION. "The December 2011 do-not-publish decision settled nothing and was reversed by the advisory board four months later. ... and a temporary moratorium on dual-use research on influenza viruses was eventually lifted. In early 2013, the National Institutes of Health issued a series ... guidelines for GOF research on flu viruses." http://lnkd.in/dyGvsfW View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2014-03-25 05:57:42
ONE DARPA GOAL IS BIOSECURITY. "If successful, CLIO will establish enduring control elements that protect against intentionally harmful genetic engineering ... The program will advance the field of synthetic biology with new insight into the design and behavior of biological systems." http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/DSO/Programs/Chronicle_of_Lineage_Indicative_of_Origins_(CLIO).aspx View in LinkedIn