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The biological century: coming to terms with risk in the life sciences

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Although the life sciences promise huge benefits, the possibility of doing harm from deliberate misuse of knowledge is an increasingly worrisome issue. Discussion and mitigation of these risks by life scientists must be encouraged.

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Figure 1: Risk of harm from misuse of the life sciences: components and trends.

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  1. David A. Relman is in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University, and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA.,

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Relman, D. The biological century: coming to terms with risk in the life sciences. Nat Immunol 11, 275–278 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni0410-275

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