The fate of society rests in part on how humans navigate their complicated relationship with insects – trying to save “good” insects and control “bad” ones. Some insects, like mosquitoes, bite people ...

They buzz, they bite, and they cause some of the deadliest diseases known to humanity. Mosquitoes are perhaps the planet’s most universally reviled animals. If we could zap them off the face of the ...

Gene drives are a promising technology for controlling the populations of disease-bearing mosquitos by using their own genes against them. But a number of roadblocks still stand in the way. The ...

A hereditary defect created with CRISPR could wipe out cattle-killing pests that cost the country millions. On a warm, sunny day in Montevideo, Uruguay, the air is smogless and crisp. Inside a highly ...

“I’m very relieved,” Andrea Crisanti, a molecular parasitologist at Imperial College London who works with gene drives, told Nature. “It would have been a disaster for developing the technology.” By ...

Malaria remains a daily threat across Africa. In 2023 alone, the continent accounted for 95% of the world’s 597,000 malaria-related deaths. The most vulnerable are our children and pregnant women.

Broken String Biosciences ("Broken String"), a leader in advancing gene editing safety, today announced the appointment of ...

When it comes to wiping out whole species or permanently altering them, however, it’s a very new ball game. The big new issues regarding Gene Drive are a whole new league. Imagine being able to wipe ...

Gene editing is already being used to treat a handful of rare genetic diseases; however, most therapies involve breaking or inactivating genes. Precisely fixing disease-causing mutations is far more ...

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