Biotechnology boom raises security fears

Hundreds of research laboratories throughout the world as the costs and lead times in developing and falls tumble scientists, products with a potential for food or medicine production.As rapid advances in biotechnology to develop and produce lighter murderer organizations that are experts better monitoring of the industry in order to prevent the progress terrorists.Such criminals, the rapid progress and let the politicians are wondering how the security in a province not regulated - a concern that land to a weekend in Morocco, where the conference experts, the threat of a pandemic, and large biological incidents in the Middle East and Northern Africa.

Genetically modified organisms are used for bridging of vaccines, the diseases could be processed soft lethal and deadly viruses and bacteria are created from scratch.Equipment as micro-reactors, the flow of reactors and reactors used disposable packages for the production of complex molecules quantities not existing 10 ago.In 2002, it took five years to the genomic sequence of a polio virus. Three years later, one week for a team in the same size to do in a virus over a similar period.