Infectious disease research and dual-use risk

Virtual Mentor

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 230-234

  Kelley, Maureen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

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EID: 36949004753     PISSN: 19377010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (12)

1. See the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Select Agent Program for the latest information on select agents. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/od/sap/. Accessed March 16, 2006.
2. Agricultural Bioterrorism Act of 2002. 7 CFR Part 331 (2005);
3. Possession use and transfer of select agents and toxins, 9 CFR Part 121 (2005);
4. HHS Final rule. Office of Inspector General. 42 CFR Part 73 (2005).
5. Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act, 42 USC 247d-6(h)(4) (2002).
6. National Academy of Sciences. Committee on Research Standards and Practices to Prevent the Destructive Application of Biotechnology. Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism: Confronting the “Dual-use” Dilemma. Washington, DC: National Academies Press; 2004. Available at: http://fermat.nap.edu/books/0309089778/html. Accessed March 16, 2006.
7. Einstein A. Ideas and Opinions. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press; 1954:115.
8. Petro JB, Relman DA. Understanding threats to scientific openness. Science. 2003;302:1898.
9. For further information about NSABB, see: http://www.biosecurityboard.gov/.
10. For a publicly available training module on dual use, designed for graduate students and junior investigators, see: Southeast Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infections. The dual-use dilemma in biological research. In: Core I. Policy, Ethics, and Law Core of the Southeast Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infections. Available at: http://www.serceb.org/modules/serceb_cores/index.php?id=3. Accessed March 2, 2006.
11. Cello J, Paul AV, Wimmer E. Chemical synthesis of poliovirus cDNA: generation of infectious virus in the absence of natural template. Science. 2002;297:1016-1018.
12. Clayton RA, White O, Fraser CM. Findings emerging from complete microbial genome sequences. Curr Opin Microbiol. 1998;1:562-566.