GCRI · Biotechnology and Biosecurity
Mandate and publisher
Biotechnology and Biosecurity is published by The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI). Its mandate is the science of responsible biotechnology and biological risk: evaluating technologies, studying laboratory governance and developing risk assessment methods across health, agriculture and industry. This page sets out who answers for the platform, whom it serves, what it publishes and where its role stops. The platform is open for information and enquiries.
- STEM methods
- 6
- Canonical methods this field applies
- Topics
- 8
- Subject pages in the field
- Counterparts
- 3
- Platforms in shared fields across the network
- Report series
- 2
- Reports series it contributes to
Mandate and publisher in four parts.
Research and biosafety practice.
The platform exists because biotechnology now spans health, agriculture and industry, while its risks cross the boundaries between them. Its mandate covers bioassurance, laboratory governance, risk assessment and technology evaluation. It is a place for research and biosafety practice, not a health-service provider or clinical authority.
It stewards the canonical pages for molecular and life sciences and biotechnology platforms in the STEM Commons, so that every platform applying those methods works from the same description of their assumptions and limits.
Who it serves and what it publishes.
Who takes part
Life scientists, bioengineers, biosafety experts and biosecurity analysts.
What it publishes
Biosecurity method primers, biotechnology case studies and evidence on responsible research and development.
What the platform does not do.
- It does not regulate, inspect, certify, license or approve any laboratory, product, organism or person.
- It does not provide clinical, diagnostic or treatment advice.
- It publishes no protocols or technical detail that could increase capacity for harm.
- It does not replace institutional biosafety committees, national regulators or international instruments such as the Biological Weapons Convention and the International Health Regulations.
- Taking part gives no authority, appointment or influence over findings, and sponsorship confers no editorial control.
GCRI is a research, development and policy institution. It is not a regulator, and its findings carry their methods and uncertainty.
Established.
Biotechnology and Biosecurity is an established platform: its scope and methods are published, and its activities, records and services appear here as each one opens. Governance and corrections follow trust, rights and status. The platform’s place in the Consortium is set out on the Biotechnology and Biosecurity home, and its scientific scope on the field overview. Governance questions in the same field are convened by Health and Biosecurity Governance at The Global Risks Forum (GRF).
Questions and answers.
Is Biotechnology and Biosecurity a separate organisation?
Can a laboratory use platform primers as its biosafety rules?
Where do I raise a safety or misuse concern?
Bring a method, a dataset or a question.
Information and enquiries are open today. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.
Legal documents.
Maps, data and figures on this site are shown for context and general information. They are not advice, forecasts or warnings; the limits of the information are set out in the Disclaimers and Data Notices.