A new technology known as gene drive can increase the likelihood that desirable engineered traits in a mosquito are passed on to all of its offspring in the next generation, ultimately spreading ...

Gene drive has the potential to do harm as well as good. We need to develop it the right way. We need powerful tools to take on the deadliest creature in the world: mosquitoes. A new technology ...

This Technology Could Stop the World’s Deadliest Animal The capabilities of “gene drive” are thrilling—and also terrifying.

I helped develop gene drive technology, but oppose its for-profit use. The profit motive would decrease trust in those who might benefit from it.

Gene Drive Technology Eliminates Malaria-Transmitting Mosquito Population Researchers introduced a sterilization mutation that wiped out lab populations in seven to 11 generations ...

UCSD gene drive technology offers life-transforming power Benefits include preventing and curing diseases, but potential harms mandate ethical review ...

Now, Caltech researchers have developed a new gene drive technology, called ClvR (pronounced "cleaver"), that can be specifically customized to plant species, preventing accidental gene editing in ...

This “gene drive” technology, in its current form, is only two years old, but some are already calling for its use against the Zika virus.

When geneticists create mice with special traits, there is no way to be sure that they will be inherited by the offspring. But a new genetic tool called a gene drive may fix the problem.

Scientists working in coördination with a U.S. conservation group say they’ve established an evolution-warping technology called a “gene drive” in mammals for the first time and could use ...

How gene drives can spread altered genes (in blue) through populations. In the lab, scientists have demonstrated gene drive systems for yeast, fruit flies, and mosquitoes.

A team at the University of California, San Diego, has just shown an evolution-warping technology called a gene a drive can work in mice. But we don’t need to worry about it escaping the lab and ...