The African public, not just scientists, may get the final say over whether CRISPR gene drives are used against malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
have been released in Brazil, the United States and elsewhere, those altered genes spread slowly among wild populations . Gene drives could potentially spread to nearly ever member of a species quickly, forever altering the species or wiping it out.
If people reject that sort of offer, as has happened with some genetically modified crops, researchers often think, “If [the public] only knew enough about the technology, they’d be more accepting,” Rajagopalan says. But more often the failure comes because the researchers “don’t include community voices from the outset in the design and the implementation.”
In cages almost 5 cubic meters big — about the size of a small dressing room — containing hundreds ofmosquitoes, scientists added male members of the same species that carried the engineered change to their DNA.
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