Greg Koblentz, member of the Center’s Scientists Working Group of Chemical and Biological Threats, was quoted by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on the Biological Weapons Convention.
“It is worrisome that states parties can’t agree on relatively simple propositions that would ensure that the Article 1 prohibition on developing biological weapons includes biological agents produced or modified via emerging technologies such as genome editing,” Koblentz, the George Mason University biosecurity expert, said. Read more
