Genetic tweaks that can causes species to self-destruct could have unforeseen consequences, campaigners say
Around 80 environmental protection groups have written to the European commissioners for health and the environment to ask them to back a global ban on genetically modifying animals to spread traits through the collective genome of a species.
The ‘gene drive’ approach to controlling animal populations has been developed over the past decade. It uses gene-editing technologies to make inheritable changes to individuals of a species, which are then passed on to their progeny more often than normal genetic traits.
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