The writer is a science commentator Move along, not much to see here. That seemed to be the message from OpenAI last week, about an experiment to see whether its advanced AI chatbot GPT-4 could help ...

Fear that terrorists can use biological agents as weapons of mass destruction is significantly impacting the conduct of microbiological research. Abundant new funds are available for biodefence ...

This isn’t news to Silicon Valley. Google’s Secure AI Framework identifies AI-enabled bio attacks as a concern. On the ...

A program intended to detect bioterrorism may come to a halt in Austin, the city's health department told Travis County ...

A 2011 study conducted by the Congressional Research Service observes that: “Unfortunately, the nature of the bioterrorism threat, with its high consequences and low frequency, makes determining ...

Bioterrorists could one day kill hundreds of millions of people in an attack more deadly than nuclear war, Bill Gates will warn world leaders.

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A key challenge of tourism bioterrorism or a bio-danger is its changeable nature. What may not be considered a threat in any specific time period may become a threat almost overnight.

With war in Iraq heightening anxieties over the intertwined threats of biological warfare bioterrorism, and naturally transmitted infectious diseases, US researchers and public health officials ...

If the possibility of bioterrorism is ignored, they believe, students won’t have the requisite scientific knowledge to grasp the policy debates that span from public health to national defense.

Bioterrorism remains a major threat for the United States despite more than $65 billion spent on protecting the country from myriad dangers.

Increased funding (particularly in the USA) for novel medical countermeasures for bacterial bioterrorism agents has led to the provision of a wealth of information regarding virulence-associated ...