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From: Jonathan Latham <jrlatham@bioscienceresource.org>
Date: Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 8:02 AM
Subject: Gene Drives: A Scientific Case for a Complete and Perpetual Ban
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Dear Friends and Colleagues

Published today (Mon Feb 13th 2017) on Independent Science News

Gene Drives: A Scientific Case for a Complete and Perpetual Ban
by Jonathan Latham, PhD

https://www.independentsciencenews.org/environment/gene-drives-a-scientific-case-for-a-complete-and-perpetual-ban/

Synopsis: At what point do the products of a technology become sufficiently complex, uncertain, or unmanageable as to be unregulatable? This question is surprisingly rarely discussed given that it is key to successful and safe technological development. This article examines and compares the properties of indisputably successfully regulated systems, such as airplanes, with less successful examples of government regulation and applies these lessons to gene drives.

Please share this article if you find it useful. 
This is also printed in GeneWatch Magazine (https://issuu.com/genewatchmagazine/docs/genewatch_30-1)

Thank you and apologies for cross posting.
Jonathan

Jonathan Latham, PhD
Executive Director
The Bioscience Resource Project
Ithaca, NY 14850 USA

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