Cyber-Biosecurity:
Are we ready?
Bertrand Russell once said, ‘War doesn’t determine who is right−only who is left”,
thus ‘we need to update, upgrade and be prepared for our own survival’. These words
sound more relevant in contemporary phase in the wake of fast changing global
scenario and emerging inevitability for updating virtually by spilt of seconds.
By Dr. Sarita Jaiswal & Manisha Rawat
A
malgamation
of
biotechnological
and
information technology
advancement in 21st
century has altered our world
at the fundamental level which
is evident in the area of health,
manufacturing,
and
food
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security. Humankind has also
witnessed malicious bugs like
Y2K and Wannacry in biological
and cyber field respectively. We
have reached new landmarks
on
our
understanding
of
how biological systems work
and also discovered ways to
meaningfully manipulate these
systems as per our advantage/
requirement. Biotech tools, such
as gene drives, can deliberately
engineer inheritable genetic
traits into wild populations,
offering a powerful new way to
escape from certain vector-borne