Emerging Biotechnology: Innovation, Security, and Geopolitics

Harvard HKS

Biotechnology is transforming medicine, agriculture, and manufacturing while emerging as an increasingly important domain of national security, economic competition, and geopolitics. Advances in gene editing, synthetic biology, cellular programming, genomics, neuroscience, as well as the convergence of biology with artificial intelligence, are expanding our ability to understand and engineer living systems. At the same time, these developments raise complex policy questions related to…