Scientists are researching new techniques of pest control. One technique is to use gene drives, which involves genetically modifying rodents to make them infertile. Another techniq...
Imagine a future where crop-destroying insects simply…vanish. Not through harmful pesticides, but through a precise, targeted manipulation of their own genetic code. It’s not scien...
Rodents have joined mosquitoes in the cross-hairs of scientists working on a next-generation genetic technology known as "gene drive" to control pests.
Geneticists have developed a gene drive-based solution to the widespread problem of insecticide resistance. In an effort to protect valuable crops, the researchers created an 'e-Dr...
Homing-based gene drives are novel interventions promising the area-wide, species-specific genetic control of harmful insect populations. Here the authors demonstrate the feasibili...
The limitations of chemical pesticides and their associated risks highlight the need for more sustainable pest management strategies. Biological contr…
Gene drives are self-propagating genetic elements that bias their inheritance in order to spread rapidly through populations. In this blog, we explore what gene drives are, how the...
Genetic control of insects involves the release of modified insects that contain altered genetic traits and are competent to mate with target populati…
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-based gene drives (GDs) could be used to spread desirable genetic elements through …
Engineered gene drives, which bias their own inheritance to increase in frequency in target populations, are being developed to control mosquito malar…
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