Viewpoint: UN should reject a proposed ban on gene drives

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Viewpoint: UN should reject a proposed ban on gene drives

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Bailey, R,  Genetic Literacy Project,  2018.

A draft resolution would revise the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity to call on governments to “refrain from” releasing organisms containing engineered gene drives, according to the MIT Technology Review. A gene drive is a technology that can rapidly propagate a particular set of genes throughout a population, including genes that cause sterility in a species.