Transgenic Organisms, Cas9 Gene Drives, and Appropriate Safeguards
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Blog Post
Published
May 22, 2015, 4:58 p.m.
...Wyss Technology Development Fellow at the Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School.
Scientists making ...drive?
The simplest way to make a gene drive is to insert an endonuclease gene within its own cut site1. ...spreads through the wild population and immunizes it against the first drive. Laboratories interested in building...question), why not use them whenever applicable?Against this, consider the cost of an accidental release...accidental release could delay real-world applications against scourges such as malaria and dengue for many years... Holm, D. G. & Suzuki, D. T. Genetic Control of Insect Populations: I. Cage Studies of Chromosome Replacement...