ISGP Podcast: To Catch a Pathogen

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Synthetic biology gives us the tools to better understand pathogens and mitigate their spread, but not without introducing potential threats to biosafety.  The pros, cons and needed regulations of genetic manipulation were the subject of the debate of the ISGP policy position paper “Synthetic Biology and Infectious Disease: Challenges and Opportunities” by Dr. Bruce Hay, Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology. The paper was debated at the ISGP conference Emerging and Persistent Infectious Diseases: Focus on Prevention, convened in June 2011, in San Diego, California, U.S.

This podcast is part of the Institute on Science for Global Policy podcast series The Forum.