Henry Grabar has had enough battling knotweed. All he wanted was to build a small garden in Brooklyn—a bit of peace amid the cacophony of city life. But a plant with beet-red leaves soon took over his ...

CRISPR gene drives bias inheritance in pests, advancing population-level control while raising questions about resistance and ...

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-Drive' that reverses ...

In preclinical work recently published in Nature Communications, Fred Hutch Cancer Center scientists used a genetic “chain reaction” to transform herpes simplex virus DNA during an HSV infection. The ...

Collaboration is a vital aspect of modern science. Trading ideas can lead to large breakthroughs in a project that would not be possible for a scientist working alone. As it turns out, this type of ...

The Gates Foundation denied claims linking it to a surge in genetically modified mosquitoes in Kenya, clarifying its role in the matter At the heart of the debate is gene drive technology, a ...

Research on gene drive systems is rapidly advancing. Many proposed applications of gene drive research aim to solve environmental and public health challenges. However, due to their intrinsic ...

A collaborative research team has developed a plant gene drive system called CRISPR-Assisted Inheritance utilizing NPG1 (CAIN), which, according to the researchers, uses a toxin-antidote mechanism in ...

Bier’s group previously exploited this mutation to develop a gene editing tool, called a gene drive, that reverted the mutated ion channel in a fruit fly model back to the wild type version. 2 Gene ...

The words “herpes” and “spread” in the same sentence don’t typically spell good news. Unless, that is, you’re talking about a busybody new virus. That virus includes designer DNA called a gene drive ...

Dr. Zoloth is a professor of religion and ethics at the University of Chicago and the author of “May We Make the World? Gene Drives, Malaria, and the Future of Nature.” Bold ideas in science research ...