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Gene Drives
Since the 1940s, researchers have thought of using gene drives to eradicate populations of pests and disease vectors, and to reduce or eliminate invasive species that wreak havoc on natural ecosystems. The idea of a gene drive stems from nature itself, where in sexually reproducing organisms a certain version of a gene is preferentially passed...
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Driving drug resistance out of fungi
October 30, 2017
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George Church: Responsibility, art & science of intentional extinction, de-extinction & aging
February 17, 2016
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Safeguarding Gene Drives
July 30, 2015
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CRISPR-Cas9: Gene Drives
This animation explains how an emerging technology called “gene drives” may be used to potentially spread particular genomic alterations through targeted wild populations over many generations. It uses mosquitoes as an example of a target species – and illustrates how the versatile genome editing tool called CRISPR makes it possible. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard...
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