Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
With lab courses, we may be able to simulate a lot of that and reduce costs.
Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.
For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.
Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.
New technologies and approaches are merging the physical, digital, and biological worlds in ways that will fundamentally transform humankind. The extent to which that transformation is positive will depend on how we navigate the risks and opportunities that arise along the way.
The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.
The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.
My laboratory and my obsession is about safety and building/engineering safety. It's not just a matter of saying we want the world to be safer; we have to create technology.
You can't regulate every lab in the world.
Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.