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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

WIRED Features Island Conservation Project Director Karl Campbell

WIRED features GBIRd and Island Conservation Project Director Karl Campbell in an article about the potential for gene drives to help prevent extinctions of island species. By: Emma Marris KARL CAMPBELL IS a craftsman bedeviled by bad tools. He’s a middle-aged, medium-size, muscular Australian with a five-day beard and an intense gaze who seems perpetually […]

Written by on February 21, 2018