Elizabeth Kolbert

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Saving Nature Through Human Innovation

Pulitzer-prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert highlights the potential applications of gene drives, assisted evolution, and lengths researchers are going to in the name of conservation. Today our natural ecosystems are not so “natural.” Humans have altered systems through development, the spread of invasive species, and climate change. One of the most pressing challenges of our time […]

Written by on May 7, 2021

The New Yorker Magazine: Gene Drives as a Tool for Saving Nature

Journalist and best-selling author, Elizabeth Kolbert, speaks with leading gene drive researchers and Island Conservation’s GBIRd partners to understand how gene drive technology could save species and prevent the spread of human diseases. Read the original article in the New Yorker Magazine article here. Genetically modified organisms are nothing new, and over the past decade, […]

Written by on February 3, 2021