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This is an eclectic collection of videos about gene drive technologies found on the internet with varying levels of technicality and accuracy.
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UnderdominanceGeneConvene Global Collaborative, GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2020.
This video graphically explains the genetic concept of underdominance and illustrates how it can result in one allele replacing another allele in a population. While 'gene drive', underdominance is a genetic phenomenon that can be recreated using genetic technologies and might ... |
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Strategies for Achieving Gene Drive – GonotaxisGeneConvene Global Collaborative, GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2020.
This video explains how there are three strategies for achieving gene drive and focuses on one, gonotaxis. Gonotaxis is explained and illustrated. While well-described in various plants and animals, gene drive researchers and technology developers have not recreated gonotaxis ... |
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Strategies for Achieving Gene Drive – InterferenceGeneConvene Global Collaborative, GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2020.
This short video explains how there are essentially three genetic strategies for achieve 'drive' or 'gene drive'. This video focuses on the strategy of interference in which a genetic element achieves a transmission advantage or drives by disrupting the development of cells ... |
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Strategies for Achieving Gene Drive – Over-ReplicationGeneConvene Global Collaborative, GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2020.
This short video explains how there are essentially three genetic strategies for achieve 'drive' or 'gene drive'. This video focuses on Over-Replication, a very common strategy associated wtih different types of genetic elements found in nature that 'drive'. This strategy is ... |
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Gene Drive – The Concept ExplainedGeneConvene Global Collaborative, GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2020.
This short video is intended to serve as a short tutorial that explains the general idea of 'drive' or 'gene drive' in the context of genetics. It provides the viewer with a basic understanding of the key genetic processes underlying the patterns of inheritance with which most ... |
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What is gene drives about?EFSA, EFSAchannel, 2020.
EFSA expert Les Firbank, specialised in sustainable agriculture, talks about gene drives. Recent development in molecular biology are allowing scientists to engineer gene drives and use them to push desirable genes into target populations. How does that work? Learn more about ... |
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When Humankind Overrides EvolutionM. Skipper, World Economic Forum, Davos 2020. 2020.
Advances in synthetic biology and other novel genetic procedures could resurrect extinct species or eliminate dangerous pests. What actions are needed now to ensure the ethical and responsible application of new genetic techniques? |
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Gene Drive FilmSave Our Seeds, , 2020.
This is a video based on the findings in GENE DRIVES: A report on their science, applications, social aspects, ethics and regulations which you can find here. There was a Symposium on May 24, 2019 that covers the topics in the report and the presentations at that symposium can ... |
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The bold plan to end malaria with a gene driveVOX, , 2019.
How genetically engineered mosquitoes might defeat a disease that kills millions of children. This describes gene drive and features work from a group (Target Malaria) that is developing this technology for use against malaria |
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Gene Drive and Thinking AnimalsIsland Conservation, , 2019.
Royden Saah, Island Conservation's GBIRd program manager, recently spoke at the Thinking Animals Summit alongside Leilani Münter, a former professional race car driver and environmental activist. The Genetic Biocontrol of Invasive Rodents partnership (GBIRd) is designed for ... |
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Gene Drives and new genetic manipulation in agricultureTerra de Direitos, Terra de Direitos, 2019.
Gene drives are forms of genetic editing or manipulation of live organisms. They are the most dangerous forms of transgenics which edit genetic characteristics without necessarily including a new gene, but rather manipulating existing genes of live organisms, i.e. live organism ... |
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A Controversial Swarm Of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In A Lab In ItalyNPR, , 2019.
An international team of scientists is conducting a controversial experiment in Italy. The experiment is designed to test genetically modified mosquitoes that researchers hope could provide a powerful new weapon to fight malaria, which remains one of the world's greatest ... |
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Genetic control of Invasive carpMAISRC, Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center, 2019.
This project focuses on a novel method of biocontrol for common carp which will complement existing technologies by introducing a synthetic species-like barrier to reproduction. Researchers will use programmable transcription activators to drive lethal embryonic overexpression of ... |
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Threshold-Dependent Gene Drives in Wild Populations – A PodcastG. A. Backus and J. A. Delborne, BioScience Talks, 2019.
By altering the heritability of certain traits, gene drive technologies have the potential to spread desired genes through wild populations. In practice, this could lead to mosquito populations that, for example, bear traits making them resistant to the spread of malaria. Despite ... |
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Scientists release sterile mosquitoes in Burkina to fight malariaT. Ndiaga, Reuters, 2019.
Scientists in Burkina Faso have deployed a new weapon in the fight against malaria, and waded into a thorny bioethics debate, by letting loose thousands of genetically sterilized mosquitoes.Their experiment is the first outside the lab to release genetically altered mosquitoes in ... |
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Gene Drive Technologies: Powerful and destructiveSWISSAID, , 2019.
Gene drive organisms can put our environment, food and health in danger: this is made clear by the video from SWISSAID, the Alliance for GMO-free Switzerland and the ETC Group. |
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How gene drives could transform pest controlTEDx Youth, , 2019.
In New Zealand, 25 million native birds are killed each year by introduced predators. New Zealand has an ambitious goal to be predator free by the year 2050; however, current pest control methods will not achieve this goal. In this thought-provoking and compelling talk, ... |
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Gene Drives in Africa: Civil Society Speaks OutAfrican Centre for Biodiversity, African Centre for Biodiversity, 2019.
On Monday 1st July 2019, Target Malaria announced the release of genetically modified (GM) sterile male mosquitoes in Bana, a village in Burkina Faso – the first GM insect to be released in Africa. This is Phase I – by Phase III, Target Malaria aims to release gene drive ... |
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Daisy-chain gene drivesMIT Media Lab, , 2019.
Who should decide whether, when, and how to alter the environment? These are hard questions, especially when the decisions will impact people in many different communities or nations. Daisy drive systems may help by empowering local communities to make decisions concerning their ... |
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A Question of Consent: Exterminator Mosquitoes in Burkina FasoETC group, , 2019.
Target Malaria’s planned release of GMO mosquitos is step toward release of gene drive mosquitoes, a high-risk technology aimed at the elimination of entire species. Hundreds of organizations have demanded a moratorium on the use of this technology outside of ... |
