Minister Kuipers (MoH) provides answers to parliamentary questions regarding high-risk bio-laboratories. Minister Kuipers (MoH) provides answers to questions regarding high-risk bio-laboratories and gain-of-function research.
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?
Export control webinar Februari 2, 2021 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs regularly organizes a number of seminars on export control.
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.
Biosecurity Office international The Biosecurity Office regularly attends meetings abroad with the aim of sharing knowledge, acquiring knowledge and networking.
Article in Science: ‘Embrace experimentation in biosecurity governance’ In a Policy Forum article in Science last week, the eighteen authors of the article, including employees of the Biosecurity Office of the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (R
Biosafety and biosecurity aspects of SARS-CoV-2 With the current pandemic of COVID-19, there is a great appeal to laboratories for processing sample materials, diagnostics, but also research into a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2.