The "catastrophic" freeze on U.S. funding for malaria has halted prevention programs across Africa and also threatens to ...

A Drosophila melanogaster fruit fly engineered with a gene drive that caused it to have red fluorescent eyes.Credit...Craig Cutler for The New York Times Supported by By Jennifer Kahn One early ...

Here’s how it works. A gene drive is a type of genetic engineering technique that modifies genes so that they don’t follow the typical rules of heredity. Gene drives dramatically increase the ...

And a science meeting Thursday includes an eye-catching agenda item: gene drive’s potential for “entomological warfare.” “Most gene drive research is being done in academic and ...

Scientists call it a "gene drive." The drive is a sequence of DNA that can cause a mutation to be inherited by the offspring of an organism with nearly 100 percent efficiency, regardless of ...

That made the development of what are called "gene drive" constructs exciting (if a bit scary). They have the potential to rapidly spread genes throughout a population—including a mosquito ...

Diabate said he is optimistic that his vector control tool for malaria - described as “gene drive technology” - could be the “game-changer” when rolled out. Malaria is transmitted through ...

Bier’s group previously exploited this mutation to develop a gene editing tool, called a gene drive, that reverted the mutated ion channel in a fruit fly model back to the wild type version. 2 Gene ...

New gene drive reverses insecticide resistance in pests... then disappears. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 29, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 11 / 241122172740.htm ...

Unless, that is, you’re talking about a busybody new virus. That virus includes designer DNA called a gene drive that spreads from one herpes simplex virus to another. And it may be a first step ...

For the first time, researchers have created a gene drive – a kind of genetic parasite – that could be used to eradicate mammalian pests such as mice by making them infertile. The technology ...