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Genomics, gene editing and cell therapy
Genomics and the therapies built on it: genome projects, gene editing, gene and cell therapy, stem cells and their regulation, epigenetics and the microbiome. Prelims has asked about the GenomeIndia Project and what somatic cell nuclear transfer is used for.
UPSC has asked
- Prelims 2026: the GenomeIndia Project
- Prelims 2017: what somatic cell nuclear transfer is used for
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Gene drives
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A gene drive is engineered DNA that passes to far more than half of an organism's offspring and so spreads through a wild population, proposed for collapsing mosquito populations and opposed for effects that cannot be reversed.
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- A gene drive is engineered DNA that passes to far more than half the offspring and so spreads through a wild population. The proposed use is to collapse mosquito populations, and the concerns are resistance and effects that cannot be reversed.