Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion
Dr. Barbara Doyle Prestwich:
With CRISPR, we have the choice either to incorporate something or not to incorporate anything. It is the latter that we are talking about when it comes to the regulations. As Dr. McLoughlin indicated, with CRISPR, we can make changes that cannot be detected. They are minute changes in the genome. We are not incorporating any foreign DNA, if I can call it that.