In lab populations of genetically engineered mosquitoes, mutations arose that blocked the gene drive’s spread and restored female fertility. Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. A gene drive has successfully caused the collapse of a malaria-carrying mosquito population in the lab, researches report today (September 24) in ...

Released in the wild, mosquitoes engineered with CRISPR and a tool called gene drive could eventually replace the wild mosquitoes that carry the disease. But too much uncertainty still exists to ...

A study published in Nature Genetics reveals new insights into how medulloblastoma, the most common malignant brain tumor of childhood, can arise as the cerebellum develops. Researchers discovered ...

Gene drive alleles bias their inheritance to spread through populations. Here, we constructed a moderate efficiency 2-gRNA nanos-Cas9 homing suppression drive in the malaria mosquito Anopheles ...

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, GEMMA Biotherapeutics ("GEMMABio") – a new therapeutics company founded by gene therapy pioneer Dr. Jim Wilson – announced the completion ...