Biotechnology

TagLast edit: 28 Jul 2022 21:44 UTC by nil

Biotechnology is the use of living organisms and their derivatives to develop products in medicine, industry, and other areas.

Should GMOs (e.g. golden rice) be a cause area?

mariushobbhahn31 Jan 2022 13:42 UTC

106 points

18 comments11 min readEA link

Why Genetic Rescue

David Lang4 Aug 2022 6:22 UTC

16 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

They May as Well Grow on Trees

Vasco Grilo🔸27 Aug 2025 16:43 UTC

14 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

(asteriskmag.com)

How do you make a 250x better vaccine at 1/10 the cost? Develop it in India.

Abhishaike9 Feb 2025 3:54 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.owlposting.com)

Fund biosecurity officers at universities

freedomandutility31 Oct 2022 11:49 UTC

13 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What is the best biomedical research question for undergrad research in PDEs?

Isaac Benson31 Dec 2022 20:01 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Policy advocacy for eradicating screwworm looks remarkably cost-effective

MathiasKB🔸20 May 2024 14:23 UTC

219 points

25 comments8 min readEA link

Notes on “Barriers to Bioweapons” (Ben Ouagrham-Gormley, 2014)

imp4rtial 🔸26 Nov 2022 14:30 UTC

47 points

1 comment35 min readEA link

Launching Asimov Press

xander_balwit17 Dec 2023 15:48 UTC

80 points

6 comments3 min readEA link

Biotechnology and biosecurity

EA Handbook1 Sep 2008 7:00 UTC

10 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

The Nuclear Threat Initiative is not only nuclear—notes from a call with NTI

Sanjay26 Jun 2020 17:29 UTC

29 points

2 comments6 min readEA link

Restricting brain organoid research to slow down AGI

freedomandutility9 Nov 2022 13:01 UTC

8 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Emerging Technologies: More to explore

EA Handbook1 Jan 2021 11:06 UTC

4 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Call for papers: Biosafety and Biosecurity for Synthetic Genomics

jtm20 Jun 2023 21:15 UTC

21 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(home.liebertpub.com)

Report on the Desirability of Science Given New Biotech Risks

Matt Clancy17 Jan 2024 19:42 UTC

82 points

24 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Is iGEM really concerned with biosecurity? Remaining doubts after a shallow investigation

Ramiro20 Sep 2023 12:10 UTC

26 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

Andrew Snyder Beattie: Biotechnology and existential risk

EA Global3 Nov 2017 7:43 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

Potential Benefits of Implementing High-Throughput Sequencing (HTS) Technologies for Pandemic Pathogen Detection in Latin America and the Caribbean

Gabriela Paredes12 Aug 2024 16:17 UTC

12 points

1 comment10 min readEA link

The case to abolish the biology of suffering as a longtermist action

Gaetan_Selle 🔷21 May 2022 8:51 UTC

38 points

8 comments4 min readEA link

Online Working / Community Meetup for the Abolition of Suffering

Ruth_Seleo31 May 2022 9:16 UTC

7 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

The Career Capital Deficit in Nigerian Science: A Global Impact Blind Spot

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi3 Sep 2025 5:25 UTC

17 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

Intro to Cyberbiosecurity—Kathryn Millet | Biosecure

Madhav Malhotra6 Nov 2022 1:18 UTC

11 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

Help the most neglected farmed mammals —replacing feeder rodents with alternatives that win on cost and convenience

ForTheRodents21 Nov 2025 22:09 UTC

54 points

3 comments3 min readEA link

Brain Farming: The Case for a Global Ban

Novel Minds Project27 Sep 2025 17:31 UTC

48 points

3 comments3 min readEA link

Phages and the Future of Global Health: An Overlooked Opportunity for High-Impact Investment

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi29 Aug 2025 9:08 UTC

15 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

High-impact projects fighting biodiversity loss

Iska Knuuttila15 Nov 2025 15:05 UTC

19 points

9 comments5 min readEA link

Writing about my job: Policy Analyst

Andy Morgan 🔸15 Mar 2022 9:29 UTC

47 points

1 comment8 min readEA link

Technology’s Double Edge: Reassessing Longtermist Priorities in an Age of Exponential Innovation

Ray Raven13 Sep 2025 18:32 UTC

5 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

Biosecurity newsletters you should subscribe to

Swan 🔸29 Jan 2023 17:00 UTC

104 points

14 comments1 min readEA link

The Essentially Contested Governance of Synthetic Biology

C.K.21 Jul 2025 17:04 UTC

7 points

0 comments14 min readEA link

(proteinstoparadigms.substack.com)

Is that DNA Dangerous?

Mslkmp30 Jan 2025 19:27 UTC

14 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(press.asimov.com)

Could Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) Vectors Be the Future of One-Shot, Long-Lasting Vaccines?

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi28 Aug 2025 14:11 UTC

10 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

AI Safety in Biotech: Epitope Design for Phage and AAV Vaccines in the Global South

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi16 Sep 2025 9:59 UTC

5 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

Is Genetic Code Swapping as risky as it seems?

Invert_DOG_about_centre_O12 Jan 2025 18:38 UTC

23 points

2 comments10 min readEA link

The AI Revolution in Biology

Roman Leventov26 May 2024 9:30 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.cognitiverevolution.ai)

Brainless bodies have tremendous upside [linkpost]

SiebeRozendal26 Mar 2025 20:23 UTC

16 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

(www.technologyreview.com)

Announcing “sEAd The Future”: Effective Sperm and Egg Bank

Jordan Arel1 Apr 2025 16:35 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

The First Generative Design of Complete Viral Genomes Using AI: A Review

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi18 Sep 2025 22:24 UTC

10 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

An Evolution Revolution: using personal digital twin software, artificial sentience and quantum physics to solve genetic disorders

Athamanatha27 Dec 2023 4:24 UTC

0 points

0 comments18 min readEA link

Hyperbolic Science: Or, Playing Games with Growth

Adam Green26 Aug 2022 2:41 UTC

2 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

(markov.bio)

Safety Sells: For-profit investing into civilizational resilience (food security, biosecurity)

FGH3 Jan 2023 12:24 UTC

30 points

4 comments6 min readEA link

Farma: A GMO and Food Tech Forward Restaurant

xander_balwit13 Oct 2024 16:46 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(press.asimov.com)

Cause: biopharma R&D productivity

BoxFan24 Aug 2022 5:59 UTC

21 points

2 comments17 min readEA link

Enhancing Genomic Foundation Model Robustness through Iterative Black-Box Adversarial Training

Jeyashree Krishnan16 Oct 2025 11:05 UTC

5 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

Potential Risks of Advanced Gene Editing Technologies

Courtney Colston12 Aug 2022 9:08 UTC

5 points

3 comments15 min readEA link

The NAO is Hiring for Partnerships, Response, Virology, and Wet Lab Management

Jeff Kaufman 🔸25 Aug 2025 22:37 UTC

51 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(naobservatory.org)

Day Zero Antivirals for Future Pandemics by Brian Wang

xander_balwit26 Aug 2024 15:30 UTC

18 points

1 comment10 min readEA link

(www.asimov.press)

Gene Therapy for Mood Improvement

Ray Allen11 Jan 2023 6:19 UTC

7 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

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