Mind the (CRISPR) gaps: The European Commission's proposal for the use of NGTs in the EU

German Vighi; Nico De Storme

doi:10.15252/embr.202358109

Mind the (CRISPR) gaps: The European Commission's proposal for the use of NGTs in the EU

EMBO Rep. 2023 Dec 6;24(12):e58109. doi: 10.15252/embr.202358109. Epub 2023 Oct 26.

Authors

German Vighi¹, Nico De Storme^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory for Plant Genetics and Crop Improvement, Division of Crop Biotechnics, Department of Biosystems, KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium.
² KU Leuven Plant Institute (LPI), KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium.

PMID: 37881872
PMCID: PMC10702792 (available on 2024-10-26)
DOI: 10.15252/embr.202358109

Abstract

The proposal by the European Commission to regulate New Genome Technique (NGT) plants is a leap forward, but it does not revise the current legislation on GMOs and includes many inconsistencies that may hinder the adoption of specific NGTs.

MeSH terms

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats*
European Union