By Aline Martins Hoepers, Jack A. Heinemann, Caroline Bedin Zanatta, Philomena Chu, Tessa C. Hiscox, Sarah Zanon Agapito-Tenfen Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety Volume 282, 1 September 2024, 116707 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2024.116707 Abstract CRISPR/Cas9, a potent genetic engineering tool widely adopted in agriculture, is capable of introducing …
Giuseppe Longo reviews the book “A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution” by Nobel Prize winner, Jennifer Doudna, and Samuel Sternberg Abstract: Nobel Prize winner, Jennifer Doudna, and Samuel Sternberg survey recent advances in a pioneering area of …
Presentation by Brian Wynne at European Commission’s Ethics Expert Group Roundtable on Gene-Editingon 16 October 2019
In recent years, there has been much discussion of how gene editing techniques, such as CRISPR, can broaden the scope of genetic engineering in agriculture. However, it’s becoming clear that gene editing techniques are error prone. This new report from Friends of the Earth …