[MAIPC] Growing concern over the potential use of CRISPR as a method of invasive species control

[J.M. Rudder]

Invasive animals are more of a clear field target for CRISPR than invasive
plants at present, but it is not difficult to foresee its use in commercial
horticulture.

 

A quotation to ruminate upon:

 

"The kind of gene drive  that is invasive and self-propagating is in many
ways the equivalent of an invasive species."

-Kevin Esvelt

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/science/gene-drives-crispr.html?action=cl
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Josh Rudder

 

 

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