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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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• Press Release Driving drug resistance out of fungi
  October 30, 2017
• Audio/Podcast George Church: Responsibility, art & science of intentional extinction, de-extinction & aging
  February 17, 2016
• Press Release 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...