Gene Drive Research Makes Exceptional Progress |
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University of California San Diego professor Ethan Bier wrote a review on the remarkable progress made in the field of CRISPR-Cas9-based gene-drive systems. The full article is published in Nature Reviews Genetics.
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Research Shows Gene Drive Mosquitoes Could Help Malaria Elimination |
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A team of researchers from the United States and the United Kingdom has developed a gene drive effector that can delay Plasmodium development in transgenic Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes using antimicrobial peptides in the midgut. This technique could be used to eliminate malaria under different transmission scenarios.
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