naa a22 4500 510778836 CHVBK 20180411083240.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11948-013-9478-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11948-013-9478-8 Nixdorff Kathryn Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany aut Education for Life Scientists on the Dual-Use Implications of Their Research [Elektronische Daten] Commentary on "Implementing Biosecurity Education: Approaches, Resources and Programmes” [Kathryn Nixdorff] Advances in the life sciences are occurring with extreme rapidity and accumulating a great deal of knowledge about life's vital processes. While this knowledge is essential for fighting disease in a more effective way, it can also be misused either intentionally or inadvertently to develop novel and more effective biological weapons. For nearly a decade civil-academic society as well as States Parties to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention have recognised the importance of dual-use biosecurity education for life scientists as a means to foster a culture of responsibility and prevent the potential misuse of advances in the life sciences for non-peaceful purposes. Nevertheless, the implementation of dual-use biosecurity education for life scientists has made little progress in institutions of higher learning. Professional societies and academic organizations have worked from the bottom-up in developing online dual-use biosecurity education modules that can be used for instruction. However, top-down help is needed from goverments if further progress is to be made in implementing biosecurity education for life scientists. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Dual-use nationallicence Biosecurity nationallicence Education nationallicence Life scientists nationallicence Active learning nationallicence Science and Engineering Ethics Springer Netherlands 19/4(2013-12-01), 1487-1490 1353-3452 19:4<1487 2013 19 11948 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-013-9478-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-013-9478-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Nixdorff Kathryn Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Science and Engineering Ethics Springer Netherlands 19/4(2013-12-01), 1487-1490 1353-3452 19:4<1487 2013 19 11948 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer