Transgenic Organisms, Cas9 Gene Drives, and Appropriate Safeguards
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Blog Post
Published
May 22, 2015, 4:58 p.m.
...an initial reversal drive cannot restore the exact original sequence, it can restore the original protein-coding...distort inheritance in their favor and consequently can spread even when costly.
If even a single organism...appropriate flanking homology into a germline cell can create an RNA-guided gene drive. In principle, this...combination with standard barrier protocols, they can reduce the risk of accidental escape to a negligible...Molecular confinement involves building gene drives that can spread through populations of transgenic laboratory...to human error. And with gene drives, one mistake can be enough.
Reversal drives are designed to overwrite...sequence using a recoding strategy; a subsequent drive can restore the wild-type sequence (save for the residual...