Precaution: Open gene drive research

January 20, 2017/in Scholarly Literature

Precaution: Open gene drive research

Tags: Gene drive synthetic
Esvelt, KM, Science, 355:589-590. 2017.

IN THEIR POLICY Forum “Precaution and governance of emerging technologies” (11 November 2016, p. 710), G. E. Kaebnick and colleagues convincingly assert that precaution is consistent with support for science. However, they overlook one way to improve safety while hastening discovery: Make research open.