The gene drive dilemma: We can alter entire species but should we?
The gene drive dilemma: We can alter entire species but should we?
Tags: Ethics, Gene drive synthetic, PolicyJ. Kahn, New York Times Magazine, 2020.
One early summer evening in 2018, the biologist Anthony James drove from his office at the University of California, Irvine, to the headquarters of the Creative Artists Agency, a sleek glass-and-steel high-rise in Los Angeles. There, roughly 200 writers, directors and producers — many of them involved in the making of science-and-technology thrillers — were gathered for an event called Science Speed Dating, where James and other scientists would explain their work. The sessions were organized, James told me, “in hopes of getting the facts at least somewhat straight.”
