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Volume 353:2212-2214 November 24, 2005 Number 21
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Biomedical Research and Biosecurity
Robert Steinbrook, M.D.

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Even as they have advanced our understanding and treatment of disease, the achievements of modern biomedical research have also increased people's ability to misuse discoveries in ways that could threaten the public health or national security. The phrase "dual-use research" attempts to capture this occasionally uneasy relation between scientific advances and the potential development of new pathogens or biologic weapons. "In the language of arms control and disarmament, dual use refers to technologies intended for civilian application that can also be used for military purposes," according to a 2003 report from a committee of the National Research Council on biotechnology . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Dr. Steinbrook is a national correspondent for the Journal.



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