Transgenic Organisms, Cas9 Gene Drives, and Appropriate Safeguards
Type
Blog Post
Published
May 22, 2015, 4:58 p.m.
...initial reversal drive cannot restore the exact original sequence, it can restore the original protein-coding...are eliminated by natural selection, gene drives distort inheritance in their favor and consequently can...carrying a synthetic gene drive were to escape the laboratory, the drive could eventually spread through the...mistake would necessarily extend far beyond the laboratory and seriously damage public trust in scientists...gene drive is also the easiest: don't use a DNA vector that encodes both Cas9 and sgRNA.
What if I want... can spread through populations of transgenic laboratory organisms but not wild organisms. For example...synthetic sequence will only spread in transgenic laboratory populations with that sequence2. Both methods...