Project Syndicate
From gene drives to insecticide nets, here’s how biotechnology is confronting the malaria epidemic
Mosquitoes and the malaria parasite have survived as long as they have by constantly adapting to new conditions. Now, growing ...
Latin America can’t let its COVID crisis go to waste – it needs a structural overhaul
The pandemic has highlighted two long-standing structural weaknesses in Latin America. The first is pervasive and chronic shortcomings in state ...
Viewpoint: Lack of international cooperation could perpetuate the pandemic crisis for years
World leaders now have an opportunity to seal the deal on a global framework that puts international cooperation above vaccine ...
Viewpoint: Coronavirus exposes why the UN is unfit to mobilize international cooperation, says Council on Foreign Relations head
The United Nations has fallen far short of its goals to “maintain international peace and security,” “develop friendly relations among ...
Viewpoint: Human challenge trials – volunteers intentionally infected with COVID-19 – are ‘uninformative, unnecessary and unethical’
Deliberately infecting volunteers with SARS-CoV-2 to test the efficacy of vaccine candidates is unnecessary, uninformative, and unethical. … [O]ne prominent ...
Biomedicine, vaccines and antibiotics dramatically better human lives, but critics raise specter of ‘dangerous viruses’ and bioterrorism
Although continued innovation will further improve people’s lives, it will also give rise to new threats. … True, better diagnostics, ...
