Stories by Kevin Esvelt, George Church and Jeantine Lunshof

Kevin Esvelt is a Technology Development Fellow at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and lead author of the eLife and Science papers on RNA-guided gene drives.

George Church is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and director of the National Institutes of Health Center of Excellence in Genomic Science at Harvard.

Jeantine Lunshof is a bioethicist, Marie Curie Fellow at Harvard Medical School, and Assistant Professor at the Section Molecular Cell Physiology of the Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University Amsterdam . (Photo Credit: Marcia Smilack)

The Sciences

"Gene Drives" And CRISPR Could Revolutionize Ecosystem Management

A note from the authors: With this guest blog post we want to share the key features of an innovative method for the high-precision genome editing of wild populations that has been outlined by our team at the Wyss Institute, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health...

July 17, 2014 — Kevin Esvelt, George Church and Jeantine Lunshof