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Bioweapon agents: more access means more risk

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In the News Review article “Bioweapons: Delivering death in the mail” (Nature 414, 837–838; 2001), you quote Stanford biophysicist Steven Block as opposing restrictions on access to bioweapons agents, endorsing having “a lot of terrific [biomedical] scientists working on the problem” and forecasting “a 'molecular arms race' between bioweapons developers and biodefence specialists”.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Waksman Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, 08854, New Jersey, USA

    Richard H. Ebright

  2. Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Center for Biodefense, Lourenco Center for the Study of Emerging and Re-emerging Pathogens, New Jersey Medical School, UMDNJ, Newark, 07103, New Jersey, USA

    Nancy D. Connell

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Ebright, R., Connell, N. Bioweapon agents: more access means more risk. Nature 415, 364 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/415364b

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