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ArticleHealth security

Beyond Biosecurity by Taxonomic Lists: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities.

Piers Millett, Tessa Alexanian, Kathryn R Brink, Sarah R Carter, James Diggans, Megan J Palmer, Ryan Ritterson, Jonas B Sandbrink, Nicole E Wheeler

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Article in Health security. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Mapping variation in dual use risk assessments of synthetic biology projects.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2025
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  10. Practical Questions for Securing Nucleic Acid Synthesis.Applied biosafety : journal of the American Biological Safety Association · 2024
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  11. Developing a Common Global Baseline for Nucleic Acid Synthesis Screening.Applied biosafety : journal of the American Biological Safety Association · 2024
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  13. Data hazards in synthetic biology.Synthetic biology (Oxford, England) · 2024
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  14. Establishing a national biosafety and biosecurity agency for the United States.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Piers MillettPiers Millett, PhD, is Executive Director, International Biosecurity and Biosafety Initiative for Science, Washington, DC.
Tessa AlexanianTessa Alexanian is Safety and Security Program Officer, iGEM Foundation, Paris, France.
Kathryn R BrinkKathryn R. Brink, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, at Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
Sarah R CarterSarah R. Carter, PhD, is Principal, Science Policy Consulting LLC, Arlington, VA.
James DiggansJames Diggans, PhD, is Head of Biosecurity, Twist Bioscience, San Francisco, CA.
Megan J PalmerMegan J. Palmer, PhD, is Executive Director of Bio Policy & Leadership Initiatives and an Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering; at Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
Ryan RittersonRyan Ritterson, PhD, is Executive Vice President of Research, Gryphon Scientific LLC, Takoma Park, MD.
Jonas B SandbrinkJonas B. Sandbrink is a Doctoral Researcher, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Nicole E WheelerNicole E. Wheeler, PhD, is a Turing Fellow, Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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BiosecurityClassificationBiological engineeringSynthetic biologyTaxonomic listTaxonomy

Identifiers

PMID37856148
PMCPMC10733751

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