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ArticleFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2019

Cyberbiosecurity: A Call for Cooperation in a New Threat Landscape.

Lauren C Richardson, Nancy D Connell, Stephen M Lewis, Eleonore Pauwels, Randy S Murch

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Article in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Cyber-biological convergence: a systematic review and future outlook.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024
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  5. Establishing a national biosafety and biosecurity agency for the United States.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024
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  7. Biosafety and biosecurity challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023
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  12. Building Capacity for Cyberbiosecurity Training.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Lauren C RichardsonMerrick & Co., Arlington, VA, United States.
Nancy D ConnellJohns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Stephen M LewisMerrick & Co., Arlington, VA, United States.
Eleonore PauwelsWilson Center Science and Technology Innovation Program, The Wilson Center, Washington, DC, United States.
Randy S MurchVirginia Tech Research Center, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Arlington, VA, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The life sciences now interface broadly with information technology (IT) and cybersecurity. This convergence is a key driver in the explosion of biotechnology research and its industrial applications in health care, agriculture, manufacturing, automation, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology. As the information and handling mechanisms for biological materials have become increasingly digitized, many market sectors are now vulnerable to threats at the digital interface. This growing landscape will be addressed by cyberbiosecurity, the emerging field at the convergence of both the life sciences and IT disciplines. This manuscript summarizes the current cyberbiosecurity landscape, identifies existing vulnerabilities, and calls for formalized collaboration across a swath of disciplines to develop frameworks for early response systems to anticipate, identify, and mitigate threats in this emerging domain.

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bioeconomybioinformaticsbiomanufacturingbiosecuritycyberbiosecuritycybersecuritylife sciencessynthetic biology

Identifiers

PMID31245363
PMCPMC6562220

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