This week, Andrea speaks with Matthew McKnight, General Biosecurity Manager at Ginkgo Bioworks. Matthew and Andrea discuss the multitude of opportunities available for developments in biotechnology and mitigating national security threats through biological innovation. A new form of intelligence collection, BIOINT, is threaded into the conversation and posits a new way of identifying biological threats. Learn about all of this, including government and private sector biological security threat mitigation, in this episode.  Check out additional links to supplement our conversation here:  BIOINT as an Intelligence Collection Method Increasing Threat of Zoonotic Spillover EventsMatthew McKnight on the Intersection of Biosecurity, Biodefence, National Security, and Related Issues