While science has traditionally been done behind closed doors, the increasing power of technology to alter our shared environment makes it imperative for us to switch to an open and community-driven process.

Responsive Science uses PubPub, an interface developed at the MIT Media Lab, to provide a platform for researchers to share their scientific goals and progress with the communities that may one day be impacted by their research. By actively inviting concerns and criticism from local citizens at the very beginning of each project, technologies can be redesigned to more effectively address societal needs.

We encourage scientists to post their grants, papers and proposals and begin discussions in order to make science faster, safer, and responsive to everyone.

RNA-guided gene drive elements could address many ecological problems by altering the traits of wild organisms, but the likelihood of global spread tremendously complicates ethical development and use. Here we detail a localized form of CRISPR-based gene drive.