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Pathogens, power, and profit

Why the world needs a Global Biotech Registry

29 March 2025

9:31 AM

29 March 2025

9:31 AM

A Petri dish in a lab. A genome spliced. A pathogen engineered. The spark of the next pandemic may not lie in nature – but in a lab, buried behind institutional funding, private contracts, and a wall of bureaucratic secrecy.

In the aftermath of Covid, the world is still reeling – not just from the virus itself, but from the hard questions it raised.

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