Hi dears,
i am MSc student majoring of plant breeding.
I am working on gene editing as my seminar research.
I was wondering if you mind send me the full text, And or other papers in this issueto sent me please.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Future of breeding by genome editing is in the hands of regulators.
Jones HD. GM Crops Food. 2015
1. Gene editing: simply put--use of molecular tools to edit/change a gene/allele DNA sequence. This can lead to disrupt (knockout) the allele, fix a mutated allele or other applications.
2. Current tools include Zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs), Transcription Activator-Like Effector-based Nucleases (TALEN®), and the CRISPR-Cas system. The most popular one is CRISPR-Cas system due to its easy design.
3. Plenty of review papers about genome editing are online if you type in 'gene editing' or 'genome editing' as key words. Attached is a simple description of the applications of genome editing.
Attached is a review paper about Genome editing vs. Plant breeding. Since you major in Plant Breeding, the paper is more relate to your discipline.
Title: "Genome-editing technologies and their potential application in horticultural crop breeding"
[ http://www.nature.com/articles/hortres201519 ]
By the way, any technology has its pros and its cons. Some might post risk for the environment or ecosystem. Some can cause ethic problems. We have to make sure to take them into good use.
Genome editing is a novel powerful tools for modifying our genome makeup. However, ethic problem has also raised for using genome editing. Such as the produce of 'designer babies', or as I called it 'cosmetic gene editing' for your babies. See this report: "Year in review: Breakthrough gene editor sparks ethics debate" [ https://www.sciencenews.org/article/year-review-breakthrough-gene-editor-sparks-ethics-debate ].
If you are going to give a seminar, you should include a small section at the end to discuss the 'ethic problem' about this technology. Audience should like to here that.
Also this article from The Washington Post:
Scientists debate the ethics of an unnerving gene-editing technique
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/12/01/historic-summit-on-gene-editing-and-designer-babies-convenes-in-washington/
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