As part of our Congressional briefing, Gene editing and frontiers in genetic technologies: Innovations, impacts, and implications,” we created an overview of the emerging technologies our panelists – Diana Bianchi, George Church […]
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What is a gene drive?
A gene drive is a genetic engineering technique that efficiently “drives” an introduced DNA sequence to become inherited by all its offspring. There is great interest in gene drives with the advent […]
In the news: Ancient African genome tells complex story of human genetic history
The first genome sequence of an ancient human from Africa was published earlier this month in the journal Science, shedding light on our species’s complex history of migration and genetic […]
In the news: Potential new approach to gene therapy for sickle cell disease
Last week, research published in the journal Nature demonstrated an approach based on the hot new gene editing technology, CRISPR, that might one day be used to treat sickle cell […]