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The advent of modern biotechnologies, among which the so-called “genetic engineering” is foremost, offer unprecedented opportunities for the advancement of all activities concerned with human health and nutrition as well as many others elaborated below. In addition, it can also be argued that these developments could offer ways in which more effective and deadly biological and toxin weapons than those which are available today could be developed. There is, consequently, an argument that the prohibitions embodied in the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention require States Parties to restrict the diffusion of these technologies with the aim of reducing the risk that would-be proliferators may use these technologies to produce biological weapons.
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Falaschi, A., Ripandelli, D. (2002). Benefits from Cooperation in Biotechnology: The Experience of The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. In: Dando, M.R., Klement, C., Negut, M., Pearson, G.S. (eds) Maximizing the Security and Development Benefits from the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. NATO Science Series, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0472-5_17
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