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Strengthening biological security after COVID-19: Using cartoons for engaging life science stakeholders with the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC)

Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity, 2022
The devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have acutely shown the need for maintaining robust international and national systems for biological security and ensuring that life sciences are used only for peaceful purposes.
Tatyana Novossiolova, Simon Whitby, Malcolm Dando, Lijun Shang   +3 more
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Regulation of toxins and bioregulators under the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity
In this paper we highlight how the apparent double coverage of toxins and bioregulators by both the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in fact masks a regulatory gap that has left such potentially ...
Michael Crowley, Malcolm Dando
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Investigating Disease Outbreaks under a Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2000
The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention prohibits the development, production, and stockpiling of biological weapons agents or delivery devices for anything other than peaceful purposes.
Mark Wheelis
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Protocol to the Convention on the Prohibition of Bacteriological (Biological) Weapons – History, Main Provisions, Significance and Reasons for Not Signing

Вестник войск РХБ защиты, 2021
The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (BTWC) does not have a legally binding verification regime.
S. V. Petrov, M. V. Supotnitskiy
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Chemical warfare agents

Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences, 2010
Among the Weapons of Mass Destruction, chemical warfare (CW) is probably one of the most brutal created by mankind in comparison with biological and nuclear warfare.
K Ganesan, S K Raza, R Vijayaraghavan
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Strengthening the cross-cutting issue of the biological weapons convention in Pakistan

Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity, 2023
Development and sharing of model approaches to national science policies can enable States Parties to effectively raise awareness about the security dimensions of life science research and to promote research integrity and the responsible use of science,
Maria Khan, Saba Khan
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Challenges and recent progress in the governance of biosecurity risks in the era of synthetic biology

Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity, 2022
Considerable progress has been achieved in basic research and the biotechnological application of biological sciences in recent years. Synthetic biology integrates systems biology, engineering, computer science, and other disciplines to achieve the ...
Tao Sun, Jie Song, Meng Wang, Chao Zhao, Weiwen Zhang   +4 more
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THE VITAL IMPORTANCE OF PROVIDING SOUND SCIENTIFIC ADVICE TO POLICY MAKERS IN GOVERNMENT [PDF]

Biotechnologia Acta, 2013
The article gives an idea of the scope of professional activity of scientists working in the field of biosafety in terms of providing timely and effective advice for politicians and diplomats in the government.
G. S. Pearson
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Biological Threats of the American Occupation of the Quds Regime and Providing an Appropriate Solution to these Threats in Iran [PDF]

علوم و فنون نظامی, 2019
The high yield, cost-effectiveness and living nature of biological agents that Biological Threats of the American Occupation of the Quds Regime and Providing an Appropriate Solution to these Threats in Iran.cause dispersal and proliferation in the ...
Reza Eskandary sedighi
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Preventing “a virological Hiroshima”: Cold War press coverage of biological weapons disarmament [PDF]

, 2015
This article examines representations of biological weapons during a crucial period in the recent history of this form of warfare. The study draws on a corpus of newspaper articles from the US New York Times and the UK Times and Guardian written around ...
Alex Spelling, Avery D., Balmer B., Balmer B., Bauer M., Bingham A., Boyer P., Brian Balmer, Caitríona McLeish, Carter G. B., Connelly M., Goldblatt J., Gould C., Guillemin J., Mayor A., Moon J. E. v. C., Moon J. E. v. C., Nelkin D., Rosenberg C., Schmidt U., Sontag S., Weart S., Wheelis M.   +22 more
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