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Jacob L. Jordan
Researcher at Nuclear Threat Initiative
Publications - 2
Citations - 30
Jacob L. Jordan is an academic researcher from Nuclear Threat Initiative. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biosecurity & Communicable disease transmission. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 10 citations.
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Embrace experimentation in biosecurity governance
Sam Weiss Evans,Sam Weiss Evans,Sam Weiss Evans,Jacob Beal,Kavita M. Berger,Diederik A Bleijs,Alessia Cagnetti,Francesca Ceroni,Gerald L. Epstein,Natàlia Garcia-Reyero,David Gillum,Graeme Harkess,Nathan J. Hillson,Petra A. M. Hogervorst,Jacob L. Jordan,Geneviève Lacroix,Rebecca L. Moritz,Seán S. ÓhÉigeartaigh,Megan J. Palmer,Mark W J van Passel +19 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that activities focused on rethinking biosecurity governance present opportunities to “experiment” with new sets of assumptions about the relationship among biology, security, and society, leading to the development, assessment, and iteration of governance hypotheses.
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The biosecurity benefits of genetic engineering attribution.
Gregory Lewis,Jacob L. Jordan,David A. Relman,Gregory D. Koblentz,Jade Leung,Allan Dafoe,Cassidy Nelson,Gerald L. Epstein,Rebecca Katz,Michael Montague,Ethan C. Alley,Ethan C. Alley,Claire Marie Filone,Stephen P. Luby,George M. Church,Piers Millett,Kevin M. Esvelt,Elizabeth Cameron,Thomas V. Inglesby +18 more
TL;DR: This work believes a capability for detecting whether an organism involved in a human-caused biological event has been genetically modified and, if modified, to infer from its genetic sequence its likely lab of origin could be developed into powerful forensic tools to aid the attribution of outbreaks caused by genetically engineered pathogens.