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This is a database of print and digital media coverage of gene drive technologies and genetic biocontrol-related topics. This database is intended to serve experts and non-experts by capturing how gene drive/genetic biocontrol technologies and issues around the technologies are being represented, discussed, debated and evaluated by the public.

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Genetically modified mosquitoes | Connect the Dots

Tags: Aedes, Dengue, Genetic biocontrol, Genetically modified mosquitoes, North America, Oxitec, Sterile insect technique (SIT)
thv11,  THV11,  2021. Link
This is a local TV story from Arkansas of the Oxitec trial being conducted in Florida.

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The first genetically modified mosquitoes released in the U.S. to buzz in the Florida Keys

Tags: Aedes, Dengue, Genetic biocontrol, Genetically modified mosquitoes, North America, Oxitec, Sterile insect technique (SIT)
K. Weintraub,  USA Today,  2021. Link
On Thursday morning, workers from a British company placed basketball-sized cardboard boxes into six yards in the Florida Keys. Then they added water. In a week or so, 12,000 male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes will – one by one – begin buzzing out of each box, the first ...

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Nearly 144K GMO Mosquitoes to be Released in South Florida: What We Know

Tags: Aedes, Dengue, Genetic biocontrol, Genetically modified mosquitoes, North America, Oxitec, Sterile insect technique (SIT)
J. Prigeon,  6 South Florida,  2021. Link
Nearly 144,000 genetically modified mosquitoes will be released in South Florida this week as part of an effort to reduce the population disease-carrying mosquitoes. The landmark release of GMO insects marks the beginning of the U.S.-approved program to control the number of ...

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Nation’s first trial of genetically modified mosquitoes starts in Florida Keys

Tags: Aedes, Dengue, Genetic biocontrol, Genetically modified mosquitoes, North America, Oxitec, Sterile insect technique (SIT)
S. Brock,  TODAY,  2021. Link
To control the population of potentially disease-spreading mosquitoes, a controversial project is getting underway in the Florida Keys, highlighted by the release of even more mosquitoes that have been genetically modified. NBC’s Sam Brock reports for TODAY from Miami.

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Should we dim the sun? Will we even have a choice

Tags: Biodiversity/Conservation, CRISPR, Ecology, Gene drive synthetic, Gene editing, Invasive species, Oceania, Synthetic biology
E. Klein,  New York Times,  2021. Link
“Under a White Sky” is going to be on my best books of 2021 list. It’s a wonderful work. Kolbert is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Sixth Extinction,” which you may have read. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker and just one of the great science ...

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FKMCD – Oxitec | Mosquito Project Webinar Series

Tags: Aedes, Genetic biocontrol, Oxitec, South/Central America, Sterile insect technique (SIT), Webinar
Oxitec Ltd,  FKMCD and Oxitec,  2020. Youtube Playlist
This FKMCD - Oxitec Public Educational Webinar, our ninth, shows how Oxitec's just-add-water technology helps control the Aedes aegypti mosquito population. The second half of the webinar includes questions and answers with attendees.

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NIH NExTRAC (Novel and Exceptional Technology and Research Advisory Committee) | Workshop

Tags: Gene drive synthetic, Policy, Regulation, Risk and safety, Webinar
NIH Office of Science Policy,  National Institutes of Health (NIH),  2020. Link
NExTRAC provides advice to the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on matters related to the conduct and oversight of research involving emerging technologies in biomedical science. NExTRAC also makes recommendations on research involving the use of, and ...

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Brave New Planet: Reshaping Nature Through Gene Drives

Tags: Gene drive synthetic, Governance, Mosquitoes, Policy, Population modification/replacement, Regulation, Risk and safety, Stakeholder engagement, Target malaria
E. Lander,  Brave New Planet,  2020. Link
A new technology, called gene drives, has the power to spread any genetic instructions you wish across an entire animal or plant species in the wild. It might let us restore ecosystems ravaged by invasive species, or help species adapt to climate change. And, it might save ...

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Florida to Release 750 Million GMO Mosquitoes in 2021

Tags: Genetic biocontrol, North America, Oxitec, Self limiting, Sterile insect technique (SIT)
Seeker,  Seeker,  2020.
The U.S. EPA gave the green light to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys in 2021 — here’s what we know.

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Teach Me in 10 – Gene Drive Research with Dr. Jennifer Baltzegar

Tags: Agriculture, Biodiversity/Conservation, Gene drive synthetic, History
J. Baltzegar,  Technology Networks,  2020. Link
Dr Baltzegar teaches us about how the maturation of genetic engineering approaches has advanced gene drives, the two different strategies for gene drives and some of the key questions surrounding the application of gene drives in society.

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Anthony James / Mosquito Modification

Tags: Gene drive synthetic, Malaria, Population modification/replacement, Replicator/site directed nuclease
Big Picture Science,  SETI Institute,  2020. Link
Anthony James, vector biologist at the University of California, Irvine, describeshow we might genetically modify mosquitoes to make them unable to pass malaria on to humans.

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ENSSER | Gene Drive Webinar Series

Tags: Ethics, Gene drive synthetic, Policy, Population modification/replacement, Population suppression, Regulation, Risk and safety, Stakeholder engagement, Webinar
European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility,  2020. Youtube Playlist
This series of five Webinars by some of the authors of the interdisciplinary Gene Drive Report (2019) and were organised by four organisations of independent scientists: the European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER), Critical Scientists ...

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Jonathan Latham on Gene Drives and the Gates Foundation

Tags: Gene drive synthetic, Risk assessment, Stakeholder engagement
James Corbett,  The Corbett Report,  2020. Link
Jonathan Latham of Independent Science News joins us to discuss his 2017 article, “Gates Foundation Hired PR Firm to Manipulate UN Over Gene Drives.” We talk about gene drives, the dangers inherent in this technology, how the UN is involved, and why the Gates Foundation and ...

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Gene drive outcomes not determined by genetic variation – A Podcast

Tags: CRISPR, Gene drive synthetic, Replicator/site directed nuclease
Thomas Locke,  Malaria Minute,  2020. Link
Gene drives are a system of genetic modification that use ‘molecular scissors’ to edit DNA sequences that self-perpetuate to ensure the rapid spread of mutation in a population. They offer new avenues for eradicating vector-borne diseases like malaria. They rely on the Cas9 ...

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The Buzz About Genetically Modified Mosquitoes – a podcast

Tags: Gene drive mechanisms, Gene drive synthetic, Genetic biocontrol, Mosquitoes, Sterile insect technique (SIT)
The Scientist Creative Services Team,  The Scientist,  podcast. 2020. Link
Mosquito-borne diseases afflict a large portion of the world. In this month’s episode, we consider genetic methods to eradicate diseases such as Zika fever, Dengue fever, and malaria. We spoke with Omar Akbari, professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of ...

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Gene drives in Africa – A Podcast

Tags: Ethics, Gene drive synthetic, Policy, Risk and safety
Wakeford, T.,  etc Group,  2019. Link
In Episode #1 ETC's Tom Wakeford speaks with Ugandan lawyer and advocate Barbara Ntambirweki about gene drives, a powerful new genetic technology that can change species in the wild and make species go extinct.

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A Controversial Swarm Of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In A Lab In Italy

Tags: Gene drive synthetic, Malaria, Mosquitoes, Risk and safety
NPR,  2019. Link
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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Threshold-Dependent Gene Drives in Wild Populations – A Podcast

Tags: Ecology, Gene drive synthetic, Risk and safety
G. A. Backus and J. A. Delborne,  BioScience Talks,  2019. Link
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 malaria

Tags: Africa, Field trials, Gene drive synthetic, Population suppression, Target malaria
T. Ndiaga,  Reuters,  2019. Link
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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How gene drives could transform pest control

Tags: Biodiversity/Conservation, Other mammals
TEDx Youth,  2019. Link
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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Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler e.V. | Gene Drive Symposium-Critical Science Switzerland

Tags: Ecology, Ethics, Gene drive synthetic, Policy, Video, Webinar
Critical Scientists Switzerland; European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility; Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler,  2019. Link

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Why is this African village letting mosquitoes in?

Tags: Africa, Gene drive, Mosquitoes
BBC,  BBC,  2018. Link
This is a BBC spot about the first release of genetically modified mosquitoes in Africa by the Target Malaria team. Very little information about gene drive but the context of this spot is notable.

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Gene Drives Can Wipe Out Entire Species… Or Save Them

Tags: Biodiversity/Conservation, Ethics, Gene drive synthetic, Risk and safety
Gizmodo,  2017.
Bill Gates and other investors have poured millions into gene drives. So what is the technology and why are scientists worried about it?

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Using Gene Drive to Control Malaria

Tags: Gene drive, Malaria, Mosquitoes
The Scientist,  The Scientist,  2016. Link
This article provides illustrations for how gene drive works, how gene drives spread, and how gene drive could be used to control malaria using population-wide gene knockout, skewed sex ratio, and population-wide gene knock-in techniques. Visit the article to view all ...

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Gene Drive Technology: Where is the Future?

Tags: Ethics, Gene drive synthetic, Policy
National Academy of Sciences Engineering Medicine,  BioScience Talks,  2016. Link
Gene drives have the potential to revolutionize approaches to major public health, conservation, and agricultural problems. For instance, gene drives might one day prevent mosquitoes from spreading a variety of deadly diseases, including Zika virus, malaria, and others. A form of ...

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National Academies of Science | Workshop: Science, Ethics, and Governance Considerations for Gene Drive Research – 2015

Tags: Ecology, Ethics, Gene drive mechanisms, Policy, Risk and safety, Webinar
National Academy of Sciences Engineering Medicine,  National Academy of Sciences,  2015. Youtube Playlist

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What is Gene Drive?

Tags: Agriculture, Gene drive
Entomological Society of America,  2015. Link
A fact sheet from the Entomological Society of America.

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