Guangning Yu

2559 days ago

CRISPR is the most powerful genetic engineering tool ever created.

But CRISPR only allows us to modify one gene at a time, one organism at a time. To make species-level changes, CRISPR must be amplified by another powerful phenomenon: gene drive.

Gene drive is any mechanism that makes a gene particularly “selfish” in that it increases the probability that that particular gene will be inherited above 50%, regardless of any selection pressure.

Hacking DNA: The Story of CRISPR, Ken Thompson, and the Gene Drive

ycombinator.com

The very nature of the human race is about to change. This change will be radical and rapid beyond anything in our species’ history. A chapter of our story just ended and the next chapter has begun.