Sentences with phrase «regulation of gene drives»
They write that the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has recently convened a panel to discuss the potential hazards and regulation of gene drives, and to make recommendations regarding their safe use.
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At present, the regulation of gene drive research does not fit within the purview of any of the U.S. agencies involved in the Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology, which includes the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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The whole point of a gene drive is to disperse in the wild, but government regulations are designed to keep genetic engineering out of wild organisms, says Zach Adelman, a molecular biologist at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.
«Changes in genes» regulation — not in the DNA sequence of genes themselves — were the driving force behind successful metastases in our experiments, and, as far as we know, this is the first genomewide experimental evidence for this phenomenon.»
«The development, risk assessment regulation, and use of gene drives should be based on public dialog, public deliberations, and public decision - making.
Regulation of the expression of human ornithine decarboxylase gene and ornithine decarboxylase promoter - driven reporter gene in transgenic mice
In an attempt to identify possible ramifications of gene drives, the National Academy of Sciences has assembled experts to assess current regulations and recommend whether additional oversight is needed.
Down - regulation occurred in both hearing and deaf birds, indicative of «motor - driven» [42] gene regulation.
The single - cell perspective has helped to better understand gene regulation and regulatory networks during exit from pluripotency, cell - fate determination as well as molecular mechanisms driving cellular reprogramming of somatic cells to induced pluripotent stage.
In young animals, immunological activation drives a conserved transcriptomic switch, resulting in tightly controlled gene expression characterized by a strong up - regulation of a core activation program, coupled with a decrease in cell - to - cell variability.