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Microorganisms: Good or Evil, MIRRI Provides Biosecurity Awareness
The life-science community is a key stakeholder in the effort to ensure that the advances in biotechnology are not misused. Unfortunately, to date, the engagement of life scientists with issues of biosecurity has been limited. Microorganisms have been harnessed for the benefit of humankind but in th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5313574/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28025658 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00284-016-1181-y |
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author | Smith, David Martin, Dunja Novossiolova, Tatyana |
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description | The life-science community is a key stakeholder in the effort to ensure that the advances in biotechnology are not misused. Unfortunately, to date, the engagement of life scientists with issues of biosecurity has been limited. Microorganisms have been harnessed for the benefit of humankind but in the wrong hands could be used in direct or indirect acts against humans, livestock, crops, food, water infrastructure and other economically valuable entities. The Microbial Resources Research Infrastructure in its preparatory phase has addressed the topic implementing a code of conduct as part of its programme of prevention of malicious use and continues to work with the international community to raise awareness of best practice to avoid misuse of microorganisms. Biosecurity has become a major concern for several countries creating numerous activities to put in place counter measures, risk assessment, legislation and emergency response. The goal is to implement measures to protect us against malicious use of microorganisms, their products, information and technology transfer. Through this paper, we wish to discuss some of the activities that are underway, mention key educational tools and provide scientists with information on addressing biosecurity issues. |
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spelling | pubmed-53135742017-03-01 Microorganisms: Good or Evil, MIRRI Provides Biosecurity Awareness Smith, David Martin, Dunja Novossiolova, Tatyana Curr Microbiol Article The life-science community is a key stakeholder in the effort to ensure that the advances in biotechnology are not misused. Unfortunately, to date, the engagement of life scientists with issues of biosecurity has been limited. Microorganisms have been harnessed for the benefit of humankind but in the wrong hands could be used in direct or indirect acts against humans, livestock, crops, food, water infrastructure and other economically valuable entities. The Microbial Resources Research Infrastructure in its preparatory phase has addressed the topic implementing a code of conduct as part of its programme of prevention of malicious use and continues to work with the international community to raise awareness of best practice to avoid misuse of microorganisms. Biosecurity has become a major concern for several countries creating numerous activities to put in place counter measures, risk assessment, legislation and emergency response. The goal is to implement measures to protect us against malicious use of microorganisms, their products, information and technology transfer. Through this paper, we wish to discuss some of the activities that are underway, mention key educational tools and provide scientists with information on addressing biosecurity issues. Springer US 2016-12-26 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5313574/ /pubmed/28025658 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00284-016-1181-y Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Article Smith, David Martin, Dunja Novossiolova, Tatyana Microorganisms: Good or Evil, MIRRI Provides Biosecurity Awareness |
title | Microorganisms: Good or Evil, MIRRI Provides Biosecurity Awareness |
title_full | Microorganisms: Good or Evil, MIRRI Provides Biosecurity Awareness |
title_fullStr | Microorganisms: Good or Evil, MIRRI Provides Biosecurity Awareness |
title_full_unstemmed | Microorganisms: Good or Evil, MIRRI Provides Biosecurity Awareness |
title_short | Microorganisms: Good or Evil, MIRRI Provides Biosecurity Awareness |
title_sort | microorganisms: good or evil, mirri provides biosecurity awareness |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5313574/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28025658 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00284-016-1181-y |
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