The state of the art technique can improve hearing in children and adults with congenital deafness or severe hearing ...

By targeting genes involved in the ability of mosquitoes to mate, lay eggs or reproduce, gene drives affect their ...

A gene drive they engineered into a herpes virus could hop to other viruses in a petri dish, the duo reported in Nature Communications. That gene drive contained a CRISPR gene editor that chops ...

“The biggest problem of a gene drive—that's also its biggest strength—[is that] it can spread automatically through the whole population,” said Philipp Messer, a population geneticist at Cornell ...

“Gene drive technology has to do with modifying genetic materials … so you never know the new vector that you’ll have and what this will mean to the environment or the ecology,” he said.

Geneticists have developed a gene drive-based solution to the widespread problem of insecticide resistance. In an effort to protect valuable crops, the researchers created an 'e-Drive' that ...

Gene drive: a genetic chain reaction. Gene drive enables a genetic trait to spread more rapidly through a population than average. If the “drive” is strong enough, the phenomenon can ensure that ...

If the gene drive succeeds in eradicating mice from islands, it might one day be used to tackle mice on mainland Australia too, he says, but that isn’t the goal for now.

Gene drives designed for mosquitoes have the potential to curb the spread of malarial infections that cause hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. A new system for testing and developing gene ...