What Can Biosecurity Learn from Cybersecurity?

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07/31/20
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Why Implement Biosecurity Screening When You Can't Catch Everything?

Screening customers and sequences is important. The final goal is to work smart, together, to create the best screening systems possible.
07/30/20
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Who are the Organizations Behind Biosecurity Control Lists?

Robust and effective screening programs are essential to efforts to thwart bad actors in the synthetic biology arena. Screening programs cannot function effectively without control lists.
07/27/20
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What Makes Biosecurity Sequence Screening Difficult?

Implementing and maintaining an effective screening program is more difficult than it seems. Running customer and sequence information through the screening process is just the first step.
07/23/20
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Cyber

Battelle Publishes Open Source Binary Visualization Tool

Battelle Cyber Team publishes open source CantorDust plugin for Ghidra to provide binary visualization capabilities to the platform.
07/23/20
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What is Needed to Implement a Biosecurity Sequence Screening Program?

An effective biosecurity sequence screening program requires specific components, expertise, and training.
07/21/20
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How Does DNA Sequence Screening Need to Evolve?

DNA sequence screening needs to evolve into a system that can handle shorter sequences and provide more contextual information for both known and novel sequences of concern.
07/20/20
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Why are Items Flagged in an Effective Biosecurity Sequence Screening Program?

Effective biosecurity sequence screening programs screen both customers and orders.
07/15/20
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How Do We Know a Sequence Screening Program Is Effective?

Is your screening system that good or are you just that lucky? Is your system flagging the sequences it needs to, or are some sequences slipping by undetected?
07/14/20
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Solvers

4 Retirees Reflect on Their Time at Battelle

To celebrate Battelle’s 90th anniversary, we took the opportunity to speak to four retirees about their time at Battelle and their favorite accomplishments from their decades of work.
07/09/20
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Why Screen Sequences 200 bp at a Time?

Sequence screening is an essential component of any biosecurity screening program. Two-hundred base pairs (bp) is the point where accuracy and cost are currently optimized.
07/08/20
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What are Biosecurity Sequence Reference Databases?

Biosecurity sequence reference databases are essential and contain all published nucleic acid or protein sequences, whether or not they are potentially harmful.
07/02/20
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What are the Components of an Effective Biosecurity Customer Screening Protocol?

Customer screening, flagging, and follow-up play essential roles in establishing the legitimacy of customers ordering synthetic dsDNA sequences. It’s not enough to merely flag a potential bad actor.
07/01/20
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Public Health

Promise vs. Reality – Will Healthcare Delivery Evolve?

Thanks to COVID-19, these are heady days for telemedicine, where the future again looks bright and change is on the horizon. But will that last?
06/29/20
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Solvers

Helping Libraries and Museums Operate Safely in the COVID-19 World

As libraries and museums around the country begin to reopen to the public, the need for safe handling of core library, archival and museum materials is increasingly urgent.
06/24/20
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PFAS and Emerging Chemicals

5 Things to Know About PFAS and Human Health

Because of the pervasive use and persistent nature of PFAS, there is widespread human exposure. Battelle dives into this topic in our white paper.
06/23/20
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Why are Control Lists an Essential Part of an Effective Biosecurity Screening Program?

Biosecurity control lists name organisms that have the potential to pose a severe threat to public, animal, or plant health. Up-to-date control lists are essential to an effective screening program.
06/04/20
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STEM Education

Students at Sisters High School Take Science into the Stratosphere

Students at Sisters High School in Oregon, are taking learning to new heights through an innovative STEM program in stratospheric ballooning with help from Battelle.
06/03/20
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What Does COVID-19 Mean for Biosecurity Screening Protocols?

It’s an unsettling fact that the list of harmful pathogens (e.g. viruses and toxins) is not finite. This is clear because naturally occurring pathogens appear in our lives on a regular basis.
06/03/20
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How are DNA Biosecurity Screening Guidances Used?

DNA biosecurity screening guidances provide a framework for voluntary screening programs.