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Columbia University’s Global Alliance for Preventing Pandemics (GAPP) has established a formal working agreement with the University of Zambia’s School of Veterinary Medicine (UNZA-Vet) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to train Zambian public health professionals to adopt advanced Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies to better identify and

Columbia University’s Global Alliance for Preventing Pandemics announces an agreement with the University of Zambia’s School of Veterinary Medicine and the

West Point biochemist warns about threat of bioweapons Updated on: January 20, 2021 / 9:11 AM / CBS News In this episode of  Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Dr. Ken Wickiser, a biochemist and associate dean of research at U.S. Military Academy West Point, about his piece "Engineered Pathogens and Unnatural Biological Weapons: The Future Threat of Synthetic Biology." Wickiser describes the growing influence of synthetic biology and what can happen if it gets in the ...