{"id":13225,"date":"2017-12-08T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T14:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13225"},"modified":"2017-12-08T08:30:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T14:30:04","slug":"word-of-the-day-280","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/12\/08\/word-of-the-day-280\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gene drive<\/em>:<\/p>\n

In\u00a0genetics<\/a>,\u00a0gene drive<\/b>\u00a0is the phenomenon in which the\u00a0inheritance<\/a>\u00a0of a particular\u00a0gene<\/a>\u00a0or set of genes is favorably biased. Gene drive can arise through a variety of mechanisms and results in its\u00a0prevalence<\/a>\u00a0increasing in a population.\u00a0<\/sup>Engineered gene drives have been proposed to provide an effective means of genetically modifying populations or even whole species. [Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noted in “Gene drives can beat pests, but we can\u2019t afford any mistakes<\/em><\/a>,” Michael Le Page, NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (25 November 2017, paywall):<\/p>\n

NEW ZEALAND is considering using genetic \u201cextinction\u201d drives to tackle invaders such as rats, possums and stoats. These gene drives are essentially\u00a0genetic parasites<\/a>\u00a0that can spread and wipe out populations.<\/p>\n

But leading gene drive researchers are calling for caution. They argue that no country should tackle invasive species in this way unless these can be certain the drives won\u2019t spread beyond that country\u2019s borders (PLOS Biology<\/i>,\u00a0doi.org\/cgcb<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Possums, for instance, are protected species in neighbouring Australia, so it would be a disaster if a possum-killing gene drive was deliberately or accidentally introduced there. Instead, conservationists should release only smart gene drives that cannot spread in other countries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gene drive: In\u00a0genetics,\u00a0gene drive\u00a0is the phenomenon in which the\u00a0inheritance\u00a0of a particular\u00a0gene\u00a0or set of genes is favorably biased. Gene drive can arise through a variety of mechanisms and results in its\u00a0prevalence\u00a0increasing in a population.\u00a0Engineered gene drives have been proposed to provide an effective means of genetically modifying populations or even whole \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13226,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13225\/revisions\/13226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}