Once a month. Take the Challenge.
Each month we feature one (or more) technology(ies) with potential legal implications and ask:
What’s YOUR answer?
One $25 Starbucks gift card card awarded per challenge based on what we feel is the most judicious response to the highlighted technology(ies), below.
Deadline to be eligible for this month’s Starbucks gift card is November 1, 2014.
An extraordinary technology called “gene drive” manipulates nature by editing specific genes in wild organisms. For instance, gene drive may allow researchers to permanently block mosquitoes’ ability to spread malaria, dengue or West Nile. It may also be used to alter ticks, reducing Lyme disease infections. Also, consider the Ebola crisis. Gene drive likely could be used to cripple the disease by tweaking the fruit bat, said to be the culprit of the current outbreak. However, “[f]or scientists, the “extent of the risk — and consequences associated with the technology are unknown. Scientists say that if this tech goes awry, it could mean accidental extinction for entire species, or unpredictable gene re-mutations spreading cross-species.” Read more here and then submit the legal issues that might arise from use or misuse of this technology. Click on the “Leave a reply” icon to post your answer.