GENE DRIVES

"Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force
that made us.... Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become."
Edward O. Wilson
Consilience, The Unity of Knowledge

BACKGROUND & RESOURCES

• Abolitionist Project
• Active genetics
• The Age of the Red Pen
• Animal Ethics and the Argument from Absurdity
• Animal Rights and the Problem of r-Strategists
• Anthropcene
• The Antispeciesist Revolution
• Austin Burt
• BioCurious
• Biodefense/risks
• Bioethics
• The Biointelligence Explosion
• BIOpinionated
• Biopreparat
• "Bionic Girl"
• Cas9 (CRISPR associated protein 9)
• Center For Genetics and Society
• Cheating Evolution: engineering gene drives
• Committee on Gene Drive Research
• Concerning RNA-guided gene drives for the alteration of wild populations
• Conservation Biology
• CRISPR (Clustered regularly-interspaced short palindromic repeats)
• CRISPR-CAS9 for Genome Editing
• CRISPR/Cas Tools
• CRISPR/Cas9
• CRISPR: Transformative and Troubling
• CRISPR/Cas9 video
• CRISPR-Cas9 gene drive system targeting female reproduction in the malaria mosquito vector
• CRISPR/Cpf1
• The CRISPR Craze
• CRISPR gene-editing
• CRISPR Interference
• The CRISPR Quandary
• The CRISPR Revolution
• CRISPR treats genetic disorder in adult mammal
• "Daisy-chain" gene drives
• Democratising gene-editing
• DIY CRISPR
• DIY CRISPR genome engineering
• The DNA Exchange
• Easy DNA Editing Will Remake The World
• Double drives and private alleles for localised population genetic control
• Ecocide
• Ecological Implications of Synthetic Biology
• Edited food
• Editing an End to Malaria
• "Eliminate Predators to Eliminate All Suffering"
• Endonuclease
• Engineering the Composition and Fate of Wild Populations with Gene Drive
• Environmental Philosophy
• Eugenics
• Eugenics.org
• The Extinction Intervention
• Gene Drive
• "Gene Drives" And CRISPR Could Revolutionize Ecosystem Management
• Gene Drives Gaining Speed
• The Gene Drive Dilemma
• Gene Drives on the Horizon (NAS report, pdf)
• Gene Drives Spread Their Wings
• Gene drives, species, and compassion for individuals in conservation biology
• Gene Drive video
• Gene Drives FAQ
• 'Gene Drive' Mosquitoes Engineered to Fight Malaria
• Gene Drive Technology Eliminates Malaria-Transmitting Mosquito Population
• "Gene Drives" And CRISPR Could Revolutionize Ecosystem Management
• Gene therapy for depression
• Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements
• Genetically Engineering Almost Anything
• GeneWatch UK
• Gene Edited Mosquitoes
• Genome Editing
• "Genetically Engineering Almost Anything"
• Genetically modifying Zika virus out of existence
• Genome Engineering
• Genspace
• Gross national happiness and the fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) gene variant rs324420
• "Hacking the President's DNA"
• "Heroes of CRISPR"
• High-fidelity CRISPR-Cas9 nucleases have no detectable off-target mutations
• High-tech Jainism
• Homing Endonuclease
• Human-animal chimeras
• Human language gene makes mice smarter
• Importance of Wild Animal Suffering
• It Is Not Junk
• Journal of Visualised Experiments
• "Kill all the mosquitoes!?"
• Life History Theory
• Malaria
• MaxMind gives $100,000 to GW to create gene drive to eliminate schistosomiasis
• The Meat Eaters
• Medical Ethics
• Meet the moralist policing gene drives
• Mendelian Inheritance
• Mosquito-borne infectious disease
• Multiplex Genome Engineering Using CRISPR/Cas Systems
• New Harvest
• Non-Mendelian Inheritance
• Nonmoral Nature
• Nav1.7
• OpenHelix
• Operation Vegetarian
• Our Biotech Future
• Plague Inc.
• Plants: first CRISPR-based gene drive (2021)
• "Pleistocene rewilding"
• Predation
• Preventing a lab-created global disaster
• Red in Tooth and Claw No More
• Regulating Gene Drives
• Reprogramming the Biosphere (pdf)
  
• Reprogramming Predators
• r/K selection theory
• RNA-guided gene drives for the alteration of wild populations
• Save The Mosquitos
• Sculpting Evolution
• Selfish DNA
• The Selfish Gene
• Sentience Politics
• Sentient Beings vs Ecosystems
• Site-specific selfish genes as tools for the control and genetic engineering of natural populations
• Speciesism
• Synthetic Biology
• Synthetic biology could annihilate Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases
• A synthetic homing endonuclease-based gene drive system in the human malaria mosquito
• Texas Tick Bite Forces People to go Vegetarian
• The Transhumanist Declration
• "This bug's bite could turn you vegetarian"
• Towards Welfare Biology
• Tweaking Genes
• Unit 731
• U.S. Military Preps for Gene Drives Run Amok
• Utilitarian Ethics
• Video introduction to gene drives
• "The Villain of CRISPR"
• Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels in Tetrapods and Teleost Fishes
• Welcome to CRISPR's gene-modified zoo
• A Welfare State for Elephants
• When are we obligated to help wild creatures? (Kevin Esvelt)
• Wild Animal Suffering
• Will gene drives reduce wild animal suffering? (Brian Tomasik)
• Would it be wrong to eradicate mosquitoes? (BBC)
• Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights

Any more suggestions? Thanks!
David Pearce (2016, 2022)

E-mail
dave@bltc.com

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