Gene Drives on the Horizon
eBook - ePub

Gene Drives on the Horizon

Advancing Science, Navigating Uncertainty, and Aligning Research with Public Values

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eBook - ePub

Gene Drives on the Horizon

Advancing Science, Navigating Uncertainty, and Aligning Research with Public Values

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About this book

Research on gene drive systems is rapidly advancing. Many proposed applications of gene drive research aim to solve environmental and public health challenges, including the reduction of poverty and the burden of vector-borne diseases, such as malaria and dengue, which disproportionately impact low and middle income countries. However, due to their intrinsic qualities of rapid spread and irreversibility, gene drive systems raise many questions with respect to their safety relative to public and environmental health. Because gene drive systems are designed to alter the environments we share in ways that will be hard to anticipate and impossible to completely roll back, questions about the ethics surrounding use of this research are complex and will require very careful exploration.Gene Drives on the Horizon outlines the state of knowledge relative to the science, ethics, public engagement, and risk assessment as they pertain to research directions of gene drive systems and governance of the research process. This report offers principles for responsible practices of gene drive research and related applications for use by investigators, their institutions, the research funders, and regulators.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  4. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  5. SUMMARY
  6. 1 INTRODUCTION
  7. 2 THE STATE OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, POPULATION GENETICS, AND ECOLOGY OF GENE-DRIVE MODIFIED ORGANISMS
  8. 3 CASE STUDIES TO EXAMINE QUESTIONS ABOUT GENE-DRIVE MODIFIED ORGANISMS
  9. 4 CHARTING HUMAN VALUES
  10. 5 PHASED TESTING AND SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES TO REDUCING POTENTIAL HARMS OF GENE DRIVES
  11. 6 ASSESSING RISKS OF GENE-DRIVE MODIFIED ORGANISMS
  12. 7 ENGAGING COMMUNITIES, STAKEHOLDERS, AND PUBLICS
  13. 8 GOVERNING GENE DRIVE RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS
  14. 9 GENE DRIVES ON THE HORIZON: OVERARCHING CONSIDERATIONS
  15. GLOSSARY
  16. ACRONYMS
  17. APPENDIXES