The GeneConvene Virtual Institute aggregates, curates and shares knowledge to advance understanding of gene drive technologies and selfish genetic elements.
The GeneConvene Virtual Institute is an initiative of the GeneConvene Global Collaborative, a program within the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health that advances best practices for genetic biocontrol technologies such as those using gene drive.
Gene drive and other genetic biocontrol technologies are emerging technologies with implications for public health, conservation and agriculture. Conversations and discussions about these technologies will benefit from well-informed stakeholders and other interested parties.
Decisions by stakeholders regarding the research, development and possible use of gene drive and other biocontrol technologies will benefit from stakeholders having sources of knowledge of the scientific, social, safety and economic dimensions of these technologies.
Knowledge of gene drive and other genetic biocontrol technologies is growing rapidly but is fragmented and dispersed throughout the internet. The aim of the Virtual Institute is to bring knowledge of gene drive and other genetic biocontrol technologies together in one virtual location to make it readily accessible to those with interests in these technologies.
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The authors invite those interested in gene drive technologies who support this standardization initiative to become a signatory of this document. |
The authors invite those interested in gene drive technologies who support these core commitments for field trials of gene drive organisms to become a signatory of this document. |
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Exploring Gene Drive Technologies in Agriculture, Biodiversity and Human Disease
The GBIRd Partnership and The GeneConvene Global Collaborative, Gene Drive Research Forum, 2021.
The GBIRd Partnership and The GeneConvene Global Collaborative recently collaborated through The Gene Drive Research Forum, to create and produce an engaging conversation between Drs. Fred Gould and Charles Godfray about gene drive technologies – the potential benefits and complicating factors for agriculture, biodiversity, and human disease.
Gene drive [to eliminate malaria] is not a magic bullet, not a silver bullet, but it is potentially exciting and potentially very valuable and something worth investigating more time in at the moment to see whether it will work.
Sir Charles Godfray
Dr. Fred Gould, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Agriculture, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC USA
Image Credit: Christopher Michel
Sir Charles Godfray Ph.D., ,Professor of Population Biology, Director of the Oxford Martin School, Oxford University, Oxford, England.
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