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Title: Will CRSPR save us from NIKA?
Source: Boston Globe
URL Source: http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/ ... _BG_TodaysHeadline&s_campaign=
Published: Feb 12, 2016
Author: Unknown
Post Date: 2016-02-12 10:31:05 by interpreter
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The HEART-RENDING images of Brazilian infants with microcephaly — linked to the rapidly spreading mosquito-borne Zika virus — have brought the crisis into sharp relief and prompted heated debate over the use of a newly discovered gene-editing technology to eliminate the invasive Zika-carrying mosquito.

That technique, known as CRISPR, would allow biologists to edit the DNA of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which also transmits dengue and chikungunya viruses. Using CRISPR, biologists could modify a specific gene in the targeted species — so that it created only male progeny, for example. Through a process known as gene drive, that modification would rapidly spread within the population, wiping it out in a matter of months. Getting rid of the mosquitoes entirely, the argument goes, will also eradicate the diseases they carry.

Scientists in California and here in the Bay State are already experimenting with gene drive — a faster process than developing a vaccine — in an effort to stop the outbreak dead in its tracks. But with that power comes responsibility: The possibility of saving lives must be balanced against concerns about unintended consequences.

“It’s very important to test [a gene drive] a lot in the lab before it’s released,” says Flaminia Catteruccia, a professor of immunology and infectious disease at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “It’s also critical to have a system in place to ‘withdraw’ the gene drive to reverse any unforeseen damage. A contingency plan has to be ready.”

Questions abound: What is the environmental impact of genetically altered mosquitoes? Is it ethical to erase an entire species? Federal funding and more collaboration between government agencies and laboratories currently trying to develop a gene drive are a vital part of the equation. “We need centralized actions and decisions that should not slow down research,” adds Catteruccia. “If we want to safely implement [a gene drive], there needs to be concerted action.”

Although the World Health Organization has declared Zika an emergency, the response should involve top scientific agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health in the United States, as well as humanitarian organizations. And government officials should keep the ethical debate moving at the same speed as the science.

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#1. To: All (#0)

Is it ethical to erase an entire species?

That's a very good question. Besides wanting to wipe out genetic diseases in humans with CRSPR, scientists now want to wipe out mosquitos, which are also one of God's creations. What do you guys think about CRSPR?

interpreter  posted on  2016-02-12   10:40:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: interpreter (#1)

What do you guys think about CRSPR?

Sounds spooky to me. While it sounds well-intended, I worry about the unintended consequences.

I saw something about genetic engineering to eliminate the Dengue virus may have led to this Zika virus. Not sure what to believe.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2016-02-12   12:16:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: interpreter (#1)

What do you guys think about CRSPR?

I noticed this a few days ago about a statement from James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence:

TruNews: DNI chief calls Gene-editing a WMD, MIT suggests use for Zika

In the report titled “Statement for the Record Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community”, Clapper noted that:
Research in genome editing conducted by countries with different regulatory or ethical standards than those of Western countries probably increases the risk of the creation of potentially harmful biological agents or products. Given the broad distribution, low cost, and accelerated pace of development of this dual-use technology, its deliberate or unintentional misuse might lead to far-reaching economic and national security implications. Advances in genome editing in 2015 have compelled groups of high-profile US and European biologists to question unregulated editing of the human germline (cells that are relevant for reproduction), which might create inheritable genetic changes. Nevertheless, researchers will probably continue to encounter challenges to achieve the desired outcome of their genome modifications, in part because of the technical limitations that are inherent in available genome editing systems.

Gene editing refers to the use of advanced biotechnological processes to alter the DNA inside living cells. The most popular method, Clustered regularly-interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR), has been used in China to make beagles more muscular, dairy cows without horns, and GMO corn engineered to be resist to weedkillers and produce its own pesticides.

MIT Technology Review, a publication which reports on developments in the trans-humanism movement, said although Clapper did not mention CRISPR by name, they believed Clapper “clearly had the newest and the most versatile of the gene-editing systems in mind.”

“The CRISPR technique’s low cost and relative ease of use—the basic ingredients can be bought online for $60—seems to have spooked intelligence agencies,” author Antonio Regalado added.

Prior to Clapper’s report, MIT Technology Review released an article on Feb. 8 titled, “We have the technology to destroy all Zika mosquitoes.” In this article a technology called a ‘gene drive’ was highlighted as way to wipe out all mosquito’s carrying the Zika virus.

The article mentioned that Anthony James, a molecular biologist at the University of California, had already demonstrated the technologies effectiveness last year in yeast cells, fruit flies, and a species of mosquito that transmits malaria, and noted that it utilizes “the gene-snipping technology CRISPR to force a genetic change to spread through a population as it reproduces.”

MIT Technology Review noted that three U.S. labs that handle mosquitoes, two in California and one in Virginia, say they are already working toward a gene drive for Aedes aegypti, the type of mosquito blamed for spreading Zika. If deployed, the technology could theoretically drive the species to extinction.

“Four weeks ago we were trying to justify why we are doing this. Now they’re saying ‘Get the lead out,’” James told MIT Technology Review. “It’s absolutely going to change the conversation. We could have it easily within a year.”

A member of the lab which discovered the Aedes aegypti gene that determines sex, Zachary N. Adelman, an Associate Professor in the Department of Entomology at Virginia Tech, told MIT Technology Review confirmed that a gene drive had the potential to make mosquito populations disappear. “The simplest way to do that is to spread a genetic payload that leads to only male offspring,” Adelman said, “as the ‘male-only’ instructions spread with each new generation, eventually there would be no females left.”

Kevin Esvelt, author of online blog Sculpting Evolution and a gene-drive researcher at MIT’s Media Lab, agreed with James and Adelman that Aedes aegypti eradication should be the goal, with the contingency that the public was onboard, and the safety of the idea proved.

“Technologically, we could probably do it in a couple of years,” Esvelt told MIT Technology Review, “I’m sure we’ll be able to do it before people can agree if we should.”

Scary stuff. I knew about this for the last few years but the threats are now so obvious that even Clapper is speaking publicly. IOW, it is now so obvious that it is no longer a secret to anyone. That also means he is almost certainly aware that hostile enemies are already developing WMD using CRSPR. Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and others undoubtedly have programs.

Tooconservative  posted on  2016-02-12   15:13:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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