Biosecurity Survey

The National Academies: Advisers to the Nation on Science, Engineering, and Medicine

This is a micrograph of a blood smear containing Yersinia pestis plague bacteria. Note the characteristic bipolar, "safety-pin"-like appearance of the Y. pestis organisms. People usually get plague from being bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying the plague bacterium, or by handling an infected animal. Content provider: CDC/Dr. Jack Poland

This 2005 photograph of the CDC’s Dr. Terrence Tumpey, one of the organization’s staff microbiologists and a member of the National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), showed him examining reconstructed 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus inside a specimen vial containing an orange-colored supernatant culture medium. Content provider: CDC. Photo Credit: James Gathany

This picture is a photomicrograph of mild meningitis along with hemorrhage and the presence of Bacillus anthracis in a case of fatal human anthrax. Content provided: CDC/Dr. Marshal Fox

This is a picture of Brucella melitensis colonies. Content provider: CDC/ Courtesy of Larry Stauffer, Oregon State Public Health Laboratory

This is a photograph of Arnold Steigerwalt, a research chemist with the CDC’s Meningitis and Special Pathogens Branch (MSPB) in the National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), shown here as he was performing a DNA-DNA hybridization analysis in one of the CDC’s laboratories. Content provider: CDC/ Maryam I. Daneshvar, Ph.D. Photo Credit: James Gathany

This photomicrograph shows hepatitis caused by the Lassa virus, using toluidine-blue azure II stain. Content provider: CDC/Dr. W. Winn

Assessing Fundamental Attitudes of Life Scientists as a Basis for Biosecurity Education
Development, Security and Cooperation and the Board on Life Sciences

In conjunction with AAAS, The National Academies conducted a survey of life scientists during the summer of 2007 to assess their attitudes and opinions on dual-use life science research, biosecurity, and responsibility for preventing the misuse of information, processes, or findings of scientific research.

Committee membership

Charge to the Committee

Read a summary of three expert panels convened in Spring 2007 to examine issues related to dual-use life sciences research and to help inform the creation of the survey Click here.

Survey Questionnaire

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