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How do local communities participate in gene drive research?
16680Outreach Network for Gene Drive Research, 2021-04-12 14:39:00.
How do local communities participate in gene drive research?
Exploring Gene Drive Technologies in Agriculture, Biodiversity and Human Disease
15963The GBIRd Partnership and The GeneConvene Global Collaborative, Gene Drive Research Forum, 2021-01-14 21:37:12.
The GBIRd Partnership and The GeneConvene Global Collaborative recently collaborated through The Gene Drive Research Forum, to create and produce an engaging conversation between Drs. Fred Gould and Charles Godfray about gene drive technologies – the potential benefits and complicating factors for agriculture, biodiversity, and human disease.
ARRIGE 2020 Meeting | The promise of CRISPR and gene drive systems to end malaria in Africa
15145E. Gomez-Diaz, ARRIGE org, 2020-11-16 17:08:32.
Presentation by Elena Gómez Díaz (IPBLN-CSIC, Granada, Spain) at the ARRIGE 2020 meeting on "The promise of CRISPR and gene drive systems to end malaria in Africa". Discussion is included at the end of the Ruud de Maagd presentation.https://youtu.be/te3MJ8EZoes
Risks of releasing gene drives mosquitoes – a possible future scenario
15143Testbiotech, 2020-09-17 17:01:45.
Genetically engineering the genome of an organism with gene drive means that it will be replicated in every following generation. This allows the altered gene to spread rapidly throughout natural populations, which may be decimated or even eradicated. The video contains both factual and fictional content (the latter marked as „possible future scenario“). The fictional content shows the possible future consequences of using gene drive technology - and is intended to stimulate broad public debate. Civil society needs to engage intensively with issues around new developments in the field of biotechnology and genetic engineering.
How do you make a gene drive mosquito?
13053GeneConvene Virtual Institute, GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2020-07-17 14:10:32.
This short video explains and illustrates how transgenic mosquitoes are made in the laboratory. While mosquitoes are the focus of the video, the process shown is used to create transgenic insects of almost any species.
Genetic Biocontrol – An Overview (video 13.13 min)
11398GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2020-04-25 12:41:00.
This video explains what genetic biocontrol is and surveys various technologies that can be consider genetic biocontrol technologies. It offers a conceptual organization of the various technologies based on the potential of genetic biocontrol organisms to persist and spread in an environment. This video was produced by the GeneConvene Global Colaborative.
Gene Drive Basics – Characteristics and Properties
11412GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2020-04-15 14:11:41.
This short video covers the concept of 'drive strength', 'drive thresholds', 'spreading', 'resistance' and describes two strategies by which transmission advantages can be achieved. The video is intended to provide additional insights into the technology to enable and encourage thoughtful discussions.
Underdominance
11410GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2020-04-01 13:58:43.
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 have applications as a genetic biocontrol strategy under some circumstances.
Strategies for Achieving Gene Drive – Gonotaxis
11408GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2020-03-27 13:46:56.
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 using transgenic approaches.
Strategies for Achieving Gene Drive – Interference
11406GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2020-03-25 13:20:48.
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 that do not carry the gene drive. This is a well documented strategy found in nature.
Strategies for Achieving Gene Drive – Over-Replication
11404GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2020-03-24 13:10:14.
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 also used by researchers and developers to assemble transgenes that drive when introduced into the genome of an organism.
Gene Drive – The Concept Explained
11402GeneConvene Global Collaborative, 2020-03-20 12:59:44.
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 people of familiar and explains how these processes are involved in gene drive. This video focuses on genetics and not applications of gene drive technologies and associated issues.
What are gene drives about?
7377EFSAchannel, 2020-02-17 14:39:25.
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 this topic on in our new video.
Gene Drive Film
6665Save Our Seeds, 2020-01-16 16:39:24.
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 be found here.
The bold plan to end malaria with a gene drive
5462VOX, 2019-12-13 16:52:47.
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
Gene Drive and Thinking Animals
5541Island Conservation, 2019-11-04 20:54:55.
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 exactly that purpose. The partnership is made up of governments, NGOs, and research universities that are dedicated to understanding if the use of gene drives in mice can effectively eradicate invasive rodents on islands as well as the social implications of this science.
Gene Drives and new genetic manipulation in agriculture
5995Terra de Direitos, 2019-10-23 15:43:54.
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 genetic information microsurgery. The technique uses enzymes which “cut and paste” (such as CrisPR/Cas9) genes of organisms that reproduce sexually – such as plants like maize and mosquitoes – without necessarily introducing genes from other organisms or synthetic genes. Produced by the National Agroecology Articulation (ANA) Biodiversity Working Group, a body that congregates different social organizations and movements, the video seeks to explain in an educational way how this new biotechnology is looming as a threat to the environment, agricultural biodiversity and society.
Genetic control of Invasive carp
13941MAISRC, Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center, 2019-10-16 15:08:53.
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 endogenous genes in hybrid embryos.
Gene Drive Technologies: Powerful and destructive
5510SWISSAID, 2019-09-16 19:05:21.
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.
Gene Drives in Africa: Civil Society Speaks Out
13132African Centre for Biodiversity, 2019-07-26 13:51:13.
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 mosquitoes. This release occurred despite strong opposition from civil society, in Burkina Faso, and across the continent. In this video, key CSO figures discuss their concerns regarding gene drive technology and explain how their governments, and the Africa Union’s, position on gene drives, has been captured.
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