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Advisory Panel Recommends DHS Create Task Force To Prevent Threats From Gene Editing

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, August 18th, 2020

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Advisory Panel Recommends DHS Create Task Force To Prevent Threats From Gene Editing

Relatively new gene editing technology that is revolutionizing disease modeling, agriculture and livestock production also presents threats to people and food supplies and should be monitored closely to protect homeland security as needed, according to a new report by an advisory panel to the Department of Homeland Security. The threat posed by Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) is that experiments with gene editing that used to take weeks to years can be done “with less technical skill and…

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