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8 March 2023 Koblentz & Lentzos quoted in report focused on their work in Bloomberg article ‘Covid Lab Leak Fight Obscures the Global Rise of High-Security Biolabs’.
20 February 2023 Koblentz & Casagrande oped in The New York Times ‘Biology is Dangerously Outpacing Policy’.
5 December 2022 Koblentz & Lentzos comments in Coda Story article ‘The future home of the world’s most dangerous pathogens’.
7 Nov 2022 Koblentz & Lentzos comments in Le Monde article ‘Les “Frankenvirus” au coeur des débats, après l’émergence du Covid-19’.
1 Nov 2022 Koblentz & Lentzos comments in The Intercept:
Article part 1 ‘Bent over in pain: student infected with debilitating virus in undisclosed biolab accident’.
Article part 2 ‘Unfrozen flu: Accident with 19818 pandemic virus raises questions about pathogen research’.
Article part 3 ‘Lab that created risky avian flu had ‘Unacceptable” biosafety protocols’.
27 October 2022, Koblentz comments in Grid article ‘Virus experiments like Boston University’s covid “chimera” are going to happen. How should we regulate them?’
25 Oct 2022 Lentzos comments in The Washington Post article ‘Russia seeks UN probe of claims on Ukraine biological labs.’
19 Oct 2022 Koblentz & Lentzos comments in Science article ‘Making trouble: The US is moving to tighten oversight of studies that could make viruses more dangerous. But how far should it go?’
19 Oct 2022 Koblentz & Lentzos comments in Vox article ‘Why do labs keep making dangerous viruses?’
11 Oct 2022 Koblentz & Lentzos comments in Nature article ‘COVID prompts global surge in labs that handle dangerous pathogens.’
11 Sept 2022 Lentzos comments in The Observer article ‘Cloud labs and remote research aren’t the future of science – they’re here.’
19 July 2022 Lentzos profiled in The Biologist interview ‘The experiments we’re doing today are riskier than they’ve ever been.’
27 June 2022 Koblentz comments in Undark article ‘Amid the Turmoil of Covid, Biosafety Legislation Gets Political.’
13 June 2022 Lentzos research featured in Nature article ‘Cloud labs: where robots do the research.’
7 June 2022 Lentzos comments in Science|Business article ‘Life scientists have ‘little awareness’ of the risk that their research could create new pathogen threats.’
3 May 2022 Koblentz comments in Nature article ‘Risky “gain-of-function” studies need stricter guidance, say US researchers.’
27 April 2022 Koblentz comments in U.S. Right to Know article, “Virologists push back on more regulation of viruses made more lethal in the lab.”
26 April 2022 Koblentz research and comments in U.S. Right to Know article, “U.S. Right to Know confirms a third maximum containment lab in China.”
14 April 2022 Lentzos comments in BMJ article “Why the world has no universal biosafety standards.”
6 April 2022 Lentzos’ research featured in Ensia article “Nice things we can do now to protect the environment and reduce the risk of another pandemic.”
5 April 2022 Lentzos’ research featured in Vox article “Why experts are terrified of a human-made pandemic–and what we can do to stop it.”
30 March 2022 Koblentz & Lentzos comment in Vox article, “When scientific information is dangerous.”
25 March 2022 Koblentz & Lentzos comments in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists article, “Amid false Russian allegations of US ‘biolabs’ in Ukraine, it’s worth asking: What is a bioweapon?”
24 Mar 2022 Lentzos comments in The Economist article “What makes biological weapons so dangerous, and does Russia have them?”
22 Mar 2022 Lentzos comments in Reuters article “Russia receives Western weather data that some fear could aide attack planning.”
21 Mar 2022 Lentzos comments in The New York Times article “‘He goes where the fire is’: A virus hunter in the Wuhan market.”
20 Mar 2022 Lentzos comments in Newsweek article “Trump ally Roger Stone sides with Putin, claims Russia ‘acting defensively’.”
19 Mar 2022 Lentzos comments in National Geographic article “The controversial quest to make a ‘contagious’ vaccine.”
19 March 2022 Koblentz comments in Washington Post article, “A legacy of ‘secrecy and deception’: Why Russia clings to an outlawed chemical arsenal.”
17 March 2022 Koblentz comments in Axios article, “Why allegations of chemical weapons use are hard to investigate.”
17 March 2022 Koblentz comments in Bloomberg Quicktake video “Ukraine: Is Russia planning to use weapons of mass destruction?”
18 Mar 2022 Lentzos comments in AP News article “Russia won’t ask UN council vote on its Ukraine resolution.”
16 Mar 2022 Lentzos comments in Science article “‘The Russians must know it’s a lie.’ Ukrainian bat research spun into a false tale of bioweapons.”
16 March 2022 Koblentz comments in The Daily Mail article, “The 46 US labs in Ukraine and the $200 Pentagon program that sparked a propaganda war.”
15 March 2022 Koblentz comments in CNN article, “Russia and chemical weapons: What you need to know.”
15 March 2022 Koblentz comments in iNews article, “How Russia’s fake claims about Ukraine bioweapons spread from Telegram anti-vaxxers to Fox News.”
12 Mar 2022 Lentzos comments in The Washington Post article “Russia’s bioweapon conspiracy theory finds support in US.”
12 Mar 2022 Lentzos comments in Financial Times article “Military briefing: Fear of deployment of chemical weapons in Ukraine.”
11 Mar 2022 Lentzos comments in BBC News article “Ukraine war: Fact-checking Russia’s biological weapons claims.”
11 Mar 2022 Lentzos comments in The New York Times article “Theory about US_funded bioweapons labs in Ukraine is unfounded.”
11 Mar 2022 Lentzos comments in Fortune article “Russia accused Ukraine of developing biological weapons in a wild conspiracy theory. It could take the war to a new level.”
11 Mar 2022 Lentzos comments in The Washington Post article “How the right embraced Russian disinformation about ‘US bioweapons labs’ in Ukraine.”
11 March 2022 Koblentz comments in BBC Newshour with Julian Marshall radio interview, “Ukraine says conditions in besieged Mariupol 'critical'.”
11 March 2022 Koblentz comments in Politifact article, “Russia, China and Tucker Carlson lack evidence on Ukraine bioweapons labs.”
10 Mar 2022 Lentzos comments in CNN article “Analysis: Russia and QAnon have the same false conspiracy theory about Ukraine.”
8 Mar 2022 Lentzos comments in Newsweek article “US biological weapons in Ukraine–separating the facts from the fiction.”
3 Mar 2022 Lentzos comments in The Intercept article “Emails point to oversight problems with NIH bat coronavirus grant.”
1 Mar 2022 Lentzos comments in Science article “Spurred by pandemic, US government will revisit federal policies on risky virus research.”
2 Mar 2022 Lentzos comments in AFP Fact Check article “Unproven claims of US-funded Ukraine bioweapons labs spread online.”
8 Feb 2022 Lentzos’ research featured in The Bulletin article “Russian media spreading disinformation about US bioweapons as troops mass near Ukraine.”
24 Jan 2022 Lentzos comments in Science article “Taiwan’s science academy fined for biosafety lapses after lab worker contracts Covid-19.”
20 Jan 2022 Lentzos comments in The Intercept article “FBI sought documents related to US-funded coronavirus research in China.”
28 Dec 2021 Lentzos comments in The Intercept article ‘The virus hunters: How the pursuit of unknown viruses risks triggering the next pandemic.’
9 December 2021 Koblentz comments in The Sun article, “Terrifying Covid LAB LEAK feared to have infected dozens in Taiwan in ‘chilling echo of Wuhan’.”
23 Nov 2021 Lentzos comments in The New York Times Magazine article “You should be afraid of the next ‘lab leak’.”
17 Nov 2021 Lentzos comments in Science article “Prophet in purgatory: EcoHealth Alliance’s Peter Daszak is fighting accusations that his pandemic prevention work helped spark Covid-19.”
11 Nov 2021 Lentzos comments in Neo.Life article “The real danger of a biological cold war with China.”
1 Nov 2021 Lentzos comments in The Telegraph article “WHO seeks more laboratory safety experts for pandemic origins inquiry.”