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

A gene drive is a piece of “selfish” DNA that can spread rapidly through a population. But fears that engineered gene drives could spread out of control may be exaggerated as there are flaws in the ...

“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.

“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 ...

A gene drive usually contains instructions for making the Cas9 enzyme, which cuts DNA, and a guide RNA that shepherds the enzyme to a particular gene. When Cas9 slices the DNA, ...

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 ...

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 ...