Advances in biotechnology and a note on Information Hazards

Advances in biotechnology and a note on Information Hazards

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This is a link post for the Biosecurity Fundamentals Curriculum

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Advances in biotechnology  ◦ How biology has changed | Tessa Alexanian | EA Global: San Francisco 2018 (10 mins)  ◦ The second decade of synthetic biology: 2010–2020 (20 mins) ◦ Benefits and Risks of Biotechnology  ▪ “What are the tools of biotechnology?” section (15 mins) ◦ Point of View: Bioengineering horizon scan 2020 ▪ Scan through Table 1 in this paper, and spend (10 mins) exploring any points of interest  ◦ https://projects.igem.org/  ▪ Spend (20 mins) exploring the project page. Read through the wikis and results page of the Grand prize-winning teams. ▪ Usually, iGEM projects are completed under 6 months by undergrads with relatively little guidance (sometimes postgrads, sometimes high schoolers)
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Information Hazards ◦ Inoculating science against potential pandemics and information hazards ◦ Original paper: Information hazards: A typology of potential harms from knowledgeBioinfohazards, Megan Crawford, Finan Adamson and Jeffrey Ladish, EA Forum post, September 2019. ◦ Slate Star Codex: The Virtue of Silence

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