Should We Create Gene Drive Grey Squirrels?
Sarah Hartley & Tom Law – Gene Drive Governance University of Exeter
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Gene Drive – A game changing technology for grey squirrel control
10 September 2021
Confor, jointly with The European Squirrel Initiative and the Country Land and Business Association, bring you, “Gene Drive – A game changing technology for grey squirrel control”. Presented by Graham Taylor MBE FICFor and Bruce Whitelaw FRSB.
This important webinar will inform the wider forestry interest about the hugely exciting prospect of resolving the grey squirrel problem using emerging technology. Directed Inheritance Gender Bias (DIGB) relies on genetic engineering technology; a proven innovative application of genome editing and GMO technology. DIGB offers a genetic alternative ‘contraception’ that could be used to humanely remove the grey squirrel from regions within 20 years.
For more details > https://www.confor.org.uk/resources/events/gene-drive-a-game-changing-technology-for-grey-squirrel-control/
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