MINI REVIEW article
Front. Digit. Health
Sec. Health Technology Implementation
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2025.1622123
This article is part of the Research TopicGlobal Health Preparedness for Biosecurity Threats: Emerging Technologies and SolutionsView all articles
Emerging technologies transforming the future of global biosecurity
Provisionally accepted
- 1Tropical Medicine Center, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil
- 2Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, São Paulo University, São Paulo, Brazil
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The convergence of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology offers transformative opportunities to enhance global biosecurity. Emerging technologies promise rapid detection, containment, and mitigation of global biological threats, while simultaneously raising complex ethical and security challenges. This research aims to critically examine advances in AI applications for biosecurity, innovations in vaccine development enabled by synthetic biology, and the risks associated with the democratization of powerful biotechnological tools. We highlight both the potential and the dangers of integrating these technologies into public health preparedness systems and advocate for the establishment of robust governance frameworks to ensure their ethical and equitable implementation.
Keywords: Emerging Technologies, artificial intelligence, Synthetic Biology, biosecurity, Public Health, Global preparedness
Received: 06 May 2025; Accepted: 19 May 2025.
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* Correspondence: Renan Chaves de Lima, Tropical Medicine Center, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil
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