GMO vs Genome Editing
Recent advances have made genome editing widely applicable, offering the opportunity to rapidly advance biology to fit the agricultural needs of the growing population. In the face of mounting global food, fiber, feed, and fuel needs and the decreasing availability of land and water caused by population growth and climate change, genome editing has never been more important.Director of Research/Cell Biology discusses an issue paper recently released by CAST in its series on The Need for Agricultural Innovation to Sustainably Feed the World by 2050. He discusses:
• How genome editing is performed and the types of "edits" that can be made
• How the genome editing process relates to traditional breeding & conventional genetic engineering
• An overview of the current landscape of governance of genome editing