About: Caruso founded the nonprofit Hybrid Vigor Institute in 2000 to study and practice collaboration in the service of new solutions for complex social and scientific problems. She recently published the book, "Intervention: Confronting the Real Risks of Genetic Engineering and Life on a Biotech Planet", and continues to work on projects both in academia and the private sector to improve the practice of risk analysis for science and technology-related innovations. Her current interests are focused on new methods for analyzing and mitigating the risks of global infectious disease, and on inventing new methods to connect printed text with electronic media.

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