Biosecurity scenario: Spyware on smartphone by foreign app Nowadays (almost) every employee has a smartphone in their pocket. But have you ever thought about who could potentially have access to the information on your smartphone?
Biosecurity Office international The Biosecurity Office regularly attends meetings at home and abroad with the aim of sharing knowledge, acquiring knowledge and networking.
Epidemiology of Pathogens Listed as Potential Bioterrorism Agents, the Netherlands We recently contributed to an article describing the incidence of potentially bioterrorist agents in the Netherlands. Almost all reported illnesses were linked to a travel history.
Export control seminar On September 18, 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will organize an Export Control Seminar at the Ministry.
The combined pathogen list has been revised and is now available in English The Biosecurity Office has updated and translated the combined list of biological agents into English.
Biosecurity Office international The Biosecurity Office regularly attends international meetings with the aim of sharing knowledge, acquiring knowledge, and networking.
Publication: international biosecurity legislation We recently published the article Complementarity of International Instruments in the Field of Biosecurity in Frontiers in Public Health.
Article: “When all research is dual use” In a March 2022 paper in Nature Machine Intelligence, researchers from a US pharmaceutical company who were building artificial intelligence systems for virtual drug discovery issued a wake-up call
Biosecurity scenario: Wandering package Do you have an overview of your parcels to be received at all times or do parcels sometimes get lost in your organization?
Article: ‘Building biosecurity for synthetic biology’ Synthetic biology is developing at a rapid pace, which means there is a risk that biosafety will come under pressure.