Genetiska vapen – med DNA som maktmedel

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Genteknikerna har utvecklats enormt de senaste decennierna, och inneburit stora vinster för sjukvården. Men med forskningens framsteg kommer också nya risker. Experter har varnat för allt från skräddarsydda biologiska vapen till DNA-baserade underrättelsemetoder och supersoldater. Hur bra är vi egentligen på att skydda vår genetiska information, och hur rädda bör vi vara om den?

Programledare och producent: Wendela Antepohl & Anna Lillkung

Medverkande

• David Gisselsson Nord - Läkare, professor i molekylär patologi och vice dekan i beredskapssäkerhet vid Lunds universitet.

• Filippa Lentzos - Docent vid avdelningen för krigsstudier vid King’s College i London och expert på biosäkerhet.

• Bill Drexel - Forskare inom internationell IT-säkerhet vid Hudson institutet i Washington DC.
  

Böcker

• Genome Editing and Biological Weapons - Assessing the Risks of Misuse (Katherine Paris, 2023)
  

Artiklar/källor i urval

• Hacking the President’s DNA (The Atlantic, 2012)
  
  

• Mitigating Risks from Gene Editing and Synthetic Biology: Global Governance Priorities (Carnegie Endowment for international peace, 2024)
  

• Scientific Risk Assessment of Genetic Weapon Systems (James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, 2021)
  
  

• Safely balancing a double-edged blade: identifying and mitigating emerging biosecurity risks in precision medicine (National Library of Medicine, 2024)
  

• The Security Implications of Developments in Biotechnology (The International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2025)
  
  

• Dna som maktmedel i hybridkrigföring (FHS, 2025)
  
  

• Genetic Warfare: Super Humans And The Law (North Carolina Central University, 2019)
  

• Gene-edited super-soldiers with AI power could be unleashed by China, warns US report (2025)
  

• Weaponized genomics: potential threats to international and human security (Nature reviews genetics, 2023)
  

• Large-Scale Nightmare or Precision Tool for Covert Operations? An Assessment of the Risks of Genetic Technology in the Near Future (International journal of intelligence and counterintelligence, 2025)
  

• Assassinations? Defamation? How genetic technology could destabilize the world (The Bulletin, 2025)
  
  

• Pentagon Making Race-Specific Bioweapons to Target Citizens, China Says (Newsweek, 2023)
  

• The Technologies and International Politics of Genetic Warfare (JSTOR, 2021)
  
  

• The AI Genetics Revolution Is Coming – We’re worrying about the wrong arms race with China (The New Atlantis, 2025)
  

• AI and the Evolution of Biological National Security Risks Capabilities, Thresholds, and Interventions (Center for New American Security, 2024)
  

• 23andMe: Privacy risks of gene data being sold or leaked (DW, 2025)
  
  

• Hackers got nearly 7 million people’s data from 23andMe. The firm blamed users in ‘very dumb’ move (The Guardian, 2024)
  
  

• 23andMe Breach Targeted Jewish and Chinese Customers, Lawsuit Says (The New York Times, 2024)
  

• Personalized War – How the genomics revolution will reshape war, espionage, and tyranny… (Aportia Magazine, 2023)
  

• Forskning och utveckling som påverkat bedömningen av biologiska och kemiska hot under åren 2015-2020 (FOI, 2021)
  
  

• Syntetisk biologi – möjligheter och utmaningar för totalförsvaret (FOI, 2019)
  
  

• China’s gene giant harvests data from millions of women (Reuters, 2021)
  
  

• CRISPR—a weapon of mass destruction? (Science, 2016)
  
  

• Gene Editing In Soldiers: CRISPR And Human Chimeras (The Defence Horizon Journal, 2024)

• The history of bioterrorism—anthrax (Medlink neurology, 1999)
  

• The New Killer Pathogens: Countering the Coming Bioweapons Threat (Carnegie Endowment, 2018)
  

Musik

• Martin D. Fowler - So Shoot Me
  

• Peter and Sylvie - Michael Andrews
  

• Marcus Bagalà - Duco in Mara's Room
  

• Kid Loco - Theme from the graffiti artist
  

• Cliff Martinez - Wear your seatbelt
  

• Cliff Martinez - The birds are doing that
  

• Paul Leonard Morgan - A touch of insanity
  

• Max de Wardener - Snowflakes
  

• Cliff Martinez - I'm in the pink
  

• Cliff Martinez - I'm sick
  

• Cliff Martinez - Don't tell anyone
  

• Cristobal Tapia De Veer - The Public
  

• Ben Prunty - Mantis (Explore)
  

• Cliff Martinez - I got time
  

• Cliff Martinez - First sleep
  

• Cliff Martinez - Speight lived here
  

• Cliff Martinez - Never read him
  

• Daniel Hart - Critical issues for the future
  

• Paul Lenoard Morgan - Anderson’s Theme
  

• Cliff Martinez - Not leaving this circus
  

• Cristobal Tapia De Veer - Pianissimo
  

• Cristobal Tapia De Veer - Pain Speedball
  

• Cliff Martinez - Placental repair
  

• Cliff Martinez - Rubber head
  

• Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Clue One
  

• Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Empty Places
  

• Jeff Beal - I think I smell gas
  

• Vince Clarke - Scarper
  

• Jay Varton - My kind of illusion
  

• Vince Pope - Who are you
  

• Cliff Martinez - Abscess
  

• Michael McCan - The Mole
  

• Ben Jordan - Travelers
  

• Silver Maple - Particle Emission
  

• Hans Zimmer - Afraid of Time
  

• Kendrick Lamar - DNA