CRISPR and Other Emerging Technologies

“Fixing” Trees With Genetic Engineering

GE trees – touted as a high-tech fix for ecosystem and climate woes – are poised to create a treadmill of profitable problems 30 November 2022 Source: Watershed Sentinel by Lucy Sharratt The promise of a simple technological fix is compelling. Whether it is world...

Webinar Series Explains Gene Drives

Webinar Series Explains Gene Drives

GENE DRIVES EXPLAINED. WHAT, WHY, HOW? The authors of the interdisciplinary Gene Drive Report (2019) are holding webinars on social, technological & scientific, environmental, ethical and legal questions of this new technique in June 2020 via Zoom – for free....

Yet more problems with CRISPR – with consequences for food safety

GMWatch 22 February 2020 Things go wrong "more often than you would think" – scientist commenting on unwanted duplications of genetic insertions Adding to the list of problems that can occur with CRISPR, a new study shows that when the CRISPR/Cas system was used in an...

Another Major Unintended Effect From CRISPR

Another Major Unintended Effect From CRISPR

Photo: GM Watch GM Watch 11 January 2020 Claire Robinson A new study reveals yet another major unintended effect from the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool – with potentially serious implications for the food safety of gene-edited plants. The study found that CRISPR-Cas9...

CRISPR Inventor Calls for Regulation

"CRISPR Cas9" by National Institutes of Health (NIH) is licensed under CC PDM 1.0 One of CRISPR’s inventors has called for controls on gene-editing technology MIT Technology Review November 15, 2019 Antonio Regalado Jennifer Doudna says governments need to pay more...