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UCSB Researchers’ use of Gene-editing Tech on Male Mosquitos Raises Ethical, Environmental Questions

Charles E. Binkley, MD, director of bioethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, quoted on KCBX.

“There are all these anecdotal stories about changing something in our very tightly interrelated community causing downstream effects that we never anticipated,” Binkley said.

“When you have this intermingling between insects and humans, particularly those in which blood is the key point of contact, and you have a mutation — I do think you do have to be thoughtful about what some of the effects could be."

Charles E. Binkley, MD, director of bioethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, quoted on KCBX Central Coast Public Radio.

Jun 9, 2021
Ethics
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