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Why are gene drive technologies being considered to help restore biodiversity on islands?
Tags: Biodiversity/Conservation, Ecology, Gene drive, Invasive species, VideoOutreach Network for Gene Drive Research, YouTube, 2024.
Mosquito population structure and gene-drive
Tags: Gene drive, Malaria, MosquitoesHeredity Podcast, 2024.
Gene-drives hold great potential for the control of biological pests, but first they need to be thoroughly tested under appropriate conditions. In this episode we discuss some new work assessing whether mosquito populations in Northern Australia could be used to test a gene-drive ...
Communicating Creatively About Genetically Modified Mosquitoes
Tags: Africa, Gene drive, MalariaLorraine Gibson, Target Malaria, 2023.
In 2018, the Target Malaria team at Imperial College London published a landmark paper in Nature Biotechnology. The study demonstrated how gene drive mosquitoes successfully suppressed a population of wild-type malaria mosquitoes, marking a significant milestone for gene ...
Framing Challenges and Opportunities for Canada: Expert Panel on Regulating Gene-Edited Organisms for Pest Control
Tags: Ethics, Pest managementCCA (Council of Canadian Academies), Framing Challenges and Opportunities for Canada, 2023.
Gene-editing technologies are changing approaches to pest management. Rapidly evolving but unproven gene-editing tools could potentially mitigate the impacts of pests in public health, conservation, and agricultural contexts. The use of these tools, however, is accompanied by ...
Worldwide Experts on Gene Drives
Save Our Seeds, 2023.
We are travelling the world speaking to some of the world's leading thinkers, activists and academics on the impact of gene drives. Join us for this video series as we hear from a diverse range of experts on one of the most controversial new emerging technologies that we face.
Introducing Emerging Health Technologies in Africa
Tags: Gene drive, Gene drive synthetic, Gene editingHealth Tech Africa, Health Tech Africa Podcast, 2023.
In this episode, the Project Director of the Platform for Dialogue and Action on Health Technologies in Africa, Professor Richard Mukabana, discusses new technologies that if well developed and proven safe and effective, have enormous potential to eradicate disease on the ...
SHOULD WE CREATE GENE DRIVE GREY SQUIRRELS
Tags: Biodiversity/Conservation, Gene drive, Gene drive syntheticS. Hartley and T. Law, GeneDriveGovernance.org, 2022.
UK scientists have proposed gene drive as a management tool to control grey squirrels. Now is a good time to talk about this emerging technology because the hopes and concerns of experts, stakeholders and the public can help to determine if or how it might be developed. To help ...
WORLDWIDE: EXPERTS ON GENE DRIVES
Tags: Gene drive, Gene drive synthetic, Policy, Risk and safety, Risk assessmentStop Gene Drive, STOP GENE DRIVES, 2022.
We are travelling the world speaking to some of the world’s leading thinkers, activists and academics on the impact of gene drives. We interviewed more than 20 experts from around the world
How We’re Reducing Disease With Genetically Modified Mosquitoes
Tags: Aedes, Anopheles, Dengue, Gene drive, Gene drive synthetic, Genetically modified mosquitoes, Malaria, Mosquitoes, North America, OxitecV. Wise, HealthMatch, 2022.
We all know mosquitoes as those annoying insects we swat away from our faces. They carry diseases, so we don’t want them anywhere near us. There are over 200 types of wild mosquitoes bugging us across America and the U.S. territories. Approximately 12 types can spread disease, ...
Genetically-Modified Mosquitos Could Soon Be Released in California
Tags: Aedes, Genetic biocontrol, North America, Oxitec, Regulation, Sterile insect technique (SIT)A. Madrigal, KQED, 2022.
Millions of genetically-modified, non-biting mosquitoes may soon be set loose in California after federal regulators gave the green light to a study aimed at preventing transmission of diseases like Zika and dengue. British biotech firm Oxitech says its technology alters male ...
Will genetic modification of mosquitoes take a bite out of insects’ population?
Tags: Aedes, Genetic biocontrol, North America, Oxitec, Regulation, Sterile insect technique (SIT)N. Patel, KCRW, 2022.
An invasive species of aggressive “ankle biters” called the Aedes aegypti mosquito is now in LA, and it’s spreading quickly. These tiny vampires can lay eggs in a space as small as a water-filled bottle cap, and they carry diseases like yellow fever and dengue. A British ...
An army of genetically engineered mosquitoes is about to be released
Tags: Aedes, Genetic biocontrol, North America, Oxitec, Regulation, Sterile insect technique (SIT)M. Menard, KNX NEWS, 2022.
A British biotech company has been altering the DNA of mosquitoes with the goal of killing off a more dangerous breed capable of spreading deadly diseases. And now they’re preparing to release their “friendly mosquitoes” into the wild. In California. Aedes aegypti is an ...
Podcast: How do you solve a problem like malaria?
Tags: Gene drive, Genetic biocontrol, MalariaA. Jha, The Economist, 2022.
SQUASHING MALARIA could, over the next three decades, save as many lives as covid-19 has taken. We explore new ways to fight infections: from the introduction of the first malaria vaccines, to genetically modified mosquitoes
The power of gene editing
Tags: Gene drive synthetic, Gene editing, Policy, Regulation, Risk and safety, Stakeholder engagementThe Economist, The Economist, 2022.
Technologies such as genetic modification and ‘CRISPR’ will cure hereditary diseases, produce disease-resistant crops and enable the breeding of malaria-free mosquitos. But advances bring ethical and practical dilemmas. Genetically modified food is banned in the EU, and ...
Podcast: Malaria Gene Drive
Tags: Ethics, Gene drive synthetic, Malaria, Policy, Stakeholder engagementS. Hartley, S. Neema and C. Opesen, University of Exeter Business School, 2021.
Professor Sarah Hartley and her two colleagues in Uganda, Stella Neema and Chris Opesen discuss gene drive research for malaria control. Funded by British Academy and Wellcome trust, their work is to understand the social science challenges around the development of this kind of ...
How An Altered Strand Of DNA Can Cause Malaria-Spreading Mosquitoes To Self-Destruct
Tags: Anopheles, Gene drive synthetic, Malaria, Population suppressionR. Stein, NPR, 2021.
For the first time, scientists have shown that a new kind of genetic engineering can crash populations of malaria-spreading mosquitoes. In the landmark study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications, researchers placed the genetically modified mosquitoes in a ...
Unique effort underway to control deadly mosquitos in Florida Keys
Tags: Aedes, Genetic biocontrol, North America, Oxitec, Sterile insect technique (SIT)K. Corso and L. Aguirre, Local10.com, 2021.
According to the World Health Organization, more than 50% of the world’s population is under the threat of mosquito borne diseases. In South Florida, the Keys are a hot spot for infection and now the first place in the United States for a novel approach to eradicating these ...
West African countries working together to develop framework to regulate genetically engineered mosquitos: Target Malaria
Tags: Gene drive synthetic, Genetically modified mosquitoes, Policy, Regulation, Risk and safety, Risk assessment, Target malariaAnonymous, Global News, 2021.
Abdoulaye Diabaté, principal investigator for Target Malaria, says West African countries like Burkina Faso, Mali and Benin are working with the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) to develop a pan-West African framework to regulate gene drive mosquitos.
Fighting disease: How are genetically engineered mosquitoes regulated?
Tags: Aedes, Anopheles, Dengue, Genetic biocontrol, Genetically modified mosquitoes, MalariaA. Julie, Global News, 2021.
Mosquitoes have long been associated with the spread of diseases like malaria, dengue fever and the Zika virus. But scientists around the world have been exploring the possibility that mosquitoes could also be key to slowing the spread of disease. By genetically altering the DNA ...
The (Losing) Battle Against Mosquitoes In Texas
Tags: Arbovirus, Dengue, Gene drive synthetic, Genetic biocontrol, Malaria, MosquitoesJ. Clayton, Texas Public Radio, 2021.
Jerry Clayton: Mosquitoes are a fact of life in Texas, and the battle against the pesky biting insects is never ending. But there are some new weapons on the horizon. Zach Adleman is an associate professor of entomology at Texas A&M University. He joins us today. Thanks for being ...
