John McCarthy gave an invited presentation at a Discussion Meeting of the Parliamentary & Scientific Committee in Westminster on February 23rd 2016. The overall theme of the meeting was ‘How safe is pathogen research?’. The presentation considered whether synthetic biology could influence the potential risks associated with pathogen research. A summary of his talk will be published in the journal Science in Parliament later this year.

The event is described on the Royal Society of Biology blog

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