CRISPR-based gene drive in agriculture will face technical and governance challenges

EMBO Rep. 2017 Sep;18(9):1479-1480. doi: 10.15252/embr.201744661. Epub 2017 Aug 7.

Authors

Nicole Gutzmann¹, Johanna E Elsensohn¹, Jessica Cavin Barnes¹, Jennifer Baltzegar¹, Michael S Jones¹, Jayce Sudweeks¹

Affiliation

¹ North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.

Abstract

Comment on “Agricultural pest control with CRISPR‐based gene drive: time for public debate” by Courtier‐Orgogozo et al.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Agriculture
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats*
Gene Drive Technology*
Gene Editing
Humans