Sterilizing Male Mosquitoes with Gene Editing to Reduce Disease Spread
Rendering certain male mosquitoes infertile with CRISPR-Cas9 techniques could slow the spread of mosquito-borne diseases. Researchers at the Army’s Institute for ...
Tag: Gene Drive
Genetically Altered Mosquitoes Could Transform the Fight Against Malaria
It has been said that malaria breeds poverty, and poverty breeds malaria. This is the reality in many parts of ...
Stopping Zika: Engineering an Alternative to ‘Suicide Mosquitoes’
A new study from the University of Missouri and Colorado State University outlines the application of CRISPR gene-editing technology to ...
The EU Not Ready for the Release of Gene Drive Organisms into the Environment
Within the last decades, new genetic engineering tools for manipulating genetic material in plants, animals and microorganisms are getting large ...
