The sci-fi technology tackling malarial mosquitos
The sci-fi technology tackling malarial mosquitos
Tags: Africa, Gene drive synthetic, Malaria, Target malariaAnonymous, The Star, 2022.
Environmental campaigner Liz O’Neill doesn’t mince her words about gene drives – the next generation of genetic modification (GM) technology. “It is extremely worrying,” says the director of UK anti-GM pressure group, GM Freeze. “To release something that has been specifically created in a laboratory in order to outfight nature, and spread without exception within wild populations, is extraordinary arrogant. “And once the genie is out of the bottle, you cannot put it back in.” The way gene drives work sounds like something from a science fiction novel, but they are already being used in laboratory tests. It is complicated stuff, but here is a simple explanation.
