As Africa continues to shoulder the global burden of malaria, scientists and policy experts say gene drive technology could ...

In this animation, learn how effective safeguarding mechanisms developed at the Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School can be applied to ensure gene drive research is done responsibly in the ...

A research team demonstrates effective safeguarding mechanisms for working with gene drives and unveils a first-of-its-kind method for reversing the changes they spread. In parallel with their ...

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 ...

By Samwel Doe OumaAs Africa continues to shoulder the global burden of malaria, scientists and policy experts say gene drive technology could offer a groundbreaking solution. But without clear ...

The report, Gene Drives on the Horizon, provides policymakers with insights into the potential benefits, possible costs and ethical concerns of using naturally occurring, genetic mechanisms that ...

Cooper emphasizes that what they made was not technically a gene drive: As a safety measure, the two components of her mechanism — one responsible for cutting the DNA, the other for targeting the cut ...

The problem is, only homology-directed repair inserts homologous DNA, that is, DNA copied from a homologous gene. It is this mechanism that puts the “drive” in gene drive, provided the ...

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 ...

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 ...