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“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 ...

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

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 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.

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.

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 ...