Created in fruit flies, the e-CHACRs and ERACRs are powerful gene drive control mechanisms that were meticulously developed and tested at the genetic and molecular levels. In the past decade ...

A powerful, three-way mechanism by which a mutation drives the growth of childhood brain ... were those involving a growth-driving gene, MYB, which normally is active only during the fetal phase ...

Gene drives can paste themselves into a gene inherited ... Studies of biological pest control mechanisms — such as releasing a predator to eradicate an invasive species (remember invasive ...

Gene drives are bits of DNA that encode various mechanisms for cheating the system and ensuring they get inherited by more than half of offspring. This means they can spread in a population even ...

This mechanism opens the door to manipulating ... but only in pollen cells containing the gene drive. The researchers used the self-pollinating plant Arabidopsis thaliana for this study in order ...

Sensing damage to their DNA, cells activate internal molecular “repairmen” to stitch genes back together and adopt gene drives and their genetic cargo. Plants are different. Their cells also have a ...

"This mechanism is an inherent remedy to the gene's selfish drive," says Yamashita, who is also a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an investigator of the ...

Researchers discovered that the same gene, ZIC1, can drive highly similar cancers by distinct, context-dependent mechanisms. Led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Cancer ...

Men who carry two copies of a common genetic variant are twice as likely to develop dementia than women with the same ...

In two new papers, both published in Cell Reports Medicine, they do both, describing the mechanisms of how alterations in the CDK12 gene drive prostate cancer development and reporting on a ...