Metagenomic Sequencing for Early Detection of Future Engineered Pandemics: Foreshadowing the Privacy Challenge.

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Nir Eyal, DPhil, is the Henry Rutgers and Dr. and Mrs. Stanley S. Bergen Professor of Bioethics, Institute for Health, School of Public Health, and Philosophy Department, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Bridget Williams, MBBS, MPH, MSt, is a DPhil Candidate, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. Kevin M. Esvelt, PhD, is an Associate Professor, Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Jane Bambauer, JD, Brechner Eminent Scholar and Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Gainesville, FL.

Published: December 2024

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