But without clear regulatory frameworks and strong community engagement, its deployment could be delayed, risking further loss of life and economic productivity.During the Evidence for Development ...

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 ...

At the heart of Target Malaria’s work is a powerful genetic tool called a gene drive. Under the normal rules of inheritance, a parent has a 50-50 chance of passing a particular gene on to an ...

A gene-editing delivery system developed by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers simultaneously targeted the liver and ...

Norvelle “Gene” Perkins, 89, of Greenwood, IN, passed away peacefully on June 10, 2025.

Bacteria, viruses and fungi are masters at evolving new strategies to infiltrate plants and cause disease that harm crops. To ...

He has also proposed using gene drives, a still-controversial technique that could rapidly “drive” genetic material that makes females sterile into the wild population. The USDA wasn’t ...

People who carry a bitter "supertaster gene" have been linked to various health conditions including bipolar disorder and ...

The BRCA cancer gene mutation runs in Kiranjeet Kaur’s family. Her sister was diagnosed around the same time, and her three ...

KJ Muldoon, a 10-month-old baby, was diagnosed with the genetic disease carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase 1 deficiency after he ...

People who carry a bitter 'supertaster gene' have been linked to various health conditions including bipolar disorder and ...

A baby born with a rare and dangerous genetic disease is growing and thriving after getting an experimental gene editing ...