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6 Biotechnology Trends Relevant to Warfare Initiatives
6 Biotechnology Trends Relevant to Warfare Initiatives
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This chapter highlights examples of some of these technologies and assesses their states of development. The approach taken here involves first postulating new BLUE force capabilities that leverage this burgeoning research field and then evaluating potential RED force applications of related technologies.
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female martyr. Reem Saleh Riyashi, Seventh female Islamic Fundamentalist suicide bomber, January 14, 2004 The fact that a woman took part for the first time in a Hamas operation marks a significant evolution .
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. A framework to achieve effective, inexpensive, yet reliable communication between RED force units under these conditions must be easily accessible, undetected by BLUE forces, and sufficiently robust to carry all of the required information in a manner that can be validated.
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Researchers Clelland and Bancroft developed a simple physical methodology to encode and recover secret DNA messages embedded in the 3 million-fold excess of normal human DNA.4 However, there is potentially a much more rapid and simpler way of transmitting the hidden information than physically moving constructed DNA as samples or microdots. Simply encrypting a message into the base-four language of DNA (IBM has developed a language for storing information in DNA sequence data5)
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Covert Communications via Bacteriorhodopsin Biomolecular electronics are being applied to the encryption of messages using protein-based holograms. Much of the work has focused on the use of bacteriorhodopsin, a protein produced by the salt marsh archaebacteria Halobacterium salinarium found in high-temperature brine pools.
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The committee notes that such developments fall outside the realm of acceptable offense from the BLUE perspective. As observed in Chapter 1, however, BLUE forces may well encounter RED forces that are willing to employ capabilities that the United States would not consider.
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Avian Influenza Another pathogen of concern is the family of avian influenza viruses -- both H5N1 and H7N2 have caused severe human illness. Influenza virus is spread by the respiratory route, so an introduction of infection into a military population might be more difficult than with a foodborne or waterborne virus.
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Accessibility Maturity Consequence Level 2/3 Watch Debilitation of BLUE forces. Research that leads to an understanding of the biologic determinants of transmissibility by respiratory secretions will allow scientists to engineer current virus strains for efficient spread.
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Accessibility Maturity Consequence Level 3 (likely dedicated Unknown Spoofing of weapons of military laboratories) mass destruction sensors.
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2001. Opportunities in Biotechnology for Future Army Applications.
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