Stef Stienstra

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The combination of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and CRISPR–Cas gene technology could e a new emerging dual use threat. It can precisely control gene dosage by a convolutional neural network that targets inhibition of gene expression via gRNA design (TIGER…https://t.co/hcqQPWRxlL

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Vandaag bereikte mij het droevige bericht dat kolonel Dr Walter Henny door een ongeval tijdens het CIOMR congres in Helsinki, waar ik afgelopen maandag nog een voordracht over bio-defense heb gegeven, is overleden. Heel tragisch. C…https://t.co/dry0XXiXo6 https://t.co/16ZMkP9pRP

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Research at In the UK University College London's UCL Genetics Institute, the Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College London found bat species breeding in the UK, which contain novel corona variants, but also four alphacoronaviruses, a MERS-related beta…https://t.co/EjA0IfsJ8P

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Technologisch relatief simpel, maar wel een heel grote installatie. Waar gaat het stof dat zich hecht aan het 60 km lange doek naar toe? Oftewel, hoeveel nog te verwerken chemisch afval gaat dit uiteindelijk opleveren? https://t.co/fL7yxzOF50 https://t.co/pFoJF1rD2J

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Well readable scientific article in the New England Journal of Medicine about the timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic:
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There are several reports that Russian Army and civilians in the area are hit by cholera outbreak after the Kakhovka Dam flooding. I have no information yet whether these outbreaks are natural or man-made as this Russian video clai…https://t.co/bVXEZEFbuS https://t.co/QSnyH1y2Du

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Treurige handelswijze. https://t.co/dm7Rd8ROuE

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Recent disclosures that Chinese state-sponsored hackers penetrated US critical infrastructure and have the ability to disrupt oil and gas pipelines, rail systems, and the US Navy’s communications in the Pacific theater should not c…https://t.co/tt1Ujnsw32 https://t.co/cuIfeI53VP

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Bellingcat identified at least 179 days in the first 12 months of Russia’s full-scale invasion where ships had been present at the Avlita terminal with their AIS transponders seemingly turned off.
This appears to support the findi…https://t.co/XEA8GGB4Xm https://t.co/dmBjfgEDH4

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Today the WHO declared that monkey pox is not a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) anymore.
But remaining uncertainties about the disease, regarding modes of transmission in some countries, poor quality of som…https://t.co/LYDMTsY3CI https://t.co/VMrv77hCoS

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Thank you Matthew Hepburn for your very important work accelerating medical product development to address infectious diseases and implementing the American Pandemic Preparedness Plan and learning the lessons from the recent COVID-19 pandemic. See for Eur…https://t.co/SLjaj9Xlpi

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The presence of the Wagner Group of Yevgeny Prigozhin in West Africa creates more instability in Mali and Burkino Faso and initiates the population of these countries to migrate towards Europe. https://t.co/a29Y63scSd

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The COVID-19 pandemic and other public health emergencies, like the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic and the 2022 monkey pox outbreak, highlight the threat of widespread illness and death posed by new and emerging infectious diseases. Attached book teaches us…https://t.co/aXXFBXYWhx

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It is important to invest in public health in countries with less developed healthcare systems. It is ‘one-world, one health’ and important to have a good overview of potential new emerging (zoonotic) infectious diseases. As I teac…https://t.co/0NmSAn5aDs https://t.co/LYBOI0jYxa

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Lintjesdragers boos vanwege koninklijke onderscheiding antiracismeactivist https://t.co/naNuTm9idA

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The Western countries are making themselves more vulnerable for asymmetric threats, like cyber-attacks and attacks on the critical infrastructure, like the grid stability of the electricity supply. But we must realize that there will be another nasty viru…https://t.co/qtbkhNIloR

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Interpol agrees, many other authorities and I agree as well, that there will be another nasty virus. We have to build up - both for man-made and for natural emerging biological threats - a well-designed bio-defense and biothreat re…https://t.co/qwtbknFZJT https://t.co/0x8ahw9AL3

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With current and former @jcbrncoe members I have supported @NATO‘s most important #CBRN defence course at NATO School in #Oberammergau: “NATO Officer CBRN Defence Policy Course“, with my lectures on bio-threat awareness, bio-defense, bio-threat detection…https://t.co/mSRwBalh7z

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China 'began developing two Covid vaccines' before official outbreak https://t.co/2oREltkzYF