Democratizing CRISPR? Stories, practices, and politics of science and governance on the agricultural gene editing frontier

M Montenegro de Wit - Elem Sci Anth, 2020 - online.ucpress.edu
Many trends in agricultural biotechnology have extended fluidly from the first era of genetic
modification using recombinant DNA techniques to the era of gene editing. But the high …

Emerging sociotechnical imaginaries for gene edited crops for foods in the United States: implications for governance

C Bain, S Lindberg, T Selfa - Agriculture and Human Values, 2020 - Springer
Gene editing techniques, such as CRISPR, are being heralded as powerful new tools for
delivering agricultural products and foods with a variety of beneficial traits quickly, easily …

[PDF][PDF] CRISPR democracy: Gene editing and the need for inclusive deliberation

S Jasanoff, JB Hurlbut, K Saha - Issues in Science and Technology, 2015 - ask-force.org
Not since the early, heady days of recombinant DNA (rDNA) has a technique of molecular
biology so gripped the scientific imagination as the CRISPR-Cas9 method of gene editing …

Can agroecology and CRISPR mix? The politics of complementarity and moving toward technology sovereignty

M Montenegro de Wit - Agriculture and Human Values, 2022 - Springer
Can gene editing and agroecology be complementary? Various formulations of this question
now animate debates over the future of food systems, including in the UN Committee on …

Essential features of responsible governance of agricultural biotechnology

S Hartley, F Gillund, L van Hove, F Wickson - PLoS Biology, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Agricultural biotechnology continues to generate considerable controversy. We argue that to
address this controversy, serious changes to governance are needed. The new wave of …

Snipping around for food: economic, ethical and policy implications of CRISPR/Cas genome editing

B Bartkowski, I Theesfeld, F Pirscher, J Timaeus - Geoforum, 2018 - Elsevier
CRISPR/Cas genome editing has the potential to revolutionise agricultural biotechnology
and breeding. Also, it can contribute to advancing modern agriculture in multiple respects …

What we know about effective public engagement on CRISPR and beyond

DA Scheufele, NM Krause, I Freiling… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Advances in gene editing technologies for human, plant, and animal applications have led
to calls from bench and social scientists, as well as a wide variety of societal stakeholders …

Genetically modified crop regulations: scope and opportunity using the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing approach

S Gupta, A Kumar, R Patel, V Kumar - Molecular Biology Reports, 2021 - Springer
Global demand for food is increasing day by day due to an increase in population and
shrinkage of the arable land area. To meet this increasing demand, there is a need to …

Is CRISPR an ethical game changer?

M Schultz-Bergin - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 2018 - Springer
By many accounts, CRISPR gene-editing technology is revolutionizing biotechnology. It has
been hailed as a scientific game changer and is being adopted at a break-neck pace. This …

The CRISPR-Cas9 technology: closer to the ultimate toolkit for targeted genome editing

F Quétier - Plant Science, 2016 - Elsevier
The first period of plant genome editing was based on Agrobacterium; chemical
mutagenesis by EMS (ethyl methanesulfonate) and ionizing radiations; each of these …