Friday, December 18, 2015

Clearer CRISPR Law

I had the pleasure of speaking about legal regulation of CRISPR/Cas9 and gene drives at the National Academies on December 8, 2015, as part of the ILAR Roundtable "Gene Editing to Modify Animal Genomes for Research ­ Scientific and Ethical Considerations".  Here is my talk:

These new biological methods for editing genes and propagating those edits throughout cells and populations represent a revolution.  I look forward to covering attendant issues as they arise.