In addition to its standing charge to advise on strategies and tools to promote awareness of the dual use issue in the life sciences community generally, the U.S. government charged the Board with developing recommendations for promoting awareness of the dual use issue among two non-traditional audiences for these efforts: (1) scientists trained in non-life science fields who collaborate in the life sciences on such endeavors and synthetic biology, and (2) amateur biologists who pursue life science research as an avocation and whose activities are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Toward that end, the NSABB has developed a report that presents a series of observations about the special characteristics of these communities and pairs them with recommendations for specially tailored strategies for awareness building.
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