Podcasts
A curated collection of podcasts pertaining to gene drive/genetic biocontrol technologies.
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World Mosquito Day: Gene Drives and CRISPR TechnologyPublic Health On Call, YouTube, 2024.About this episode: World Mosquito Day, observed annually on August 20th, commemorates British doctor Sir Ronald Ross's discovery in 1897 that female Anopheles mosquitoes transmit malaria to humans. More than a century later, major advancements like genetically modifying ... |
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Mosquito population structure and gene-driveHeredity 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 ... |
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Flight Against Infections: The Role of Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes, with Dr. Stephanie JamesEeKs on Health, YouTube, 2024.In this episode of Causes or Cures, Dr. Eeks chats with Dr. Stephanie James about the potential use of genetically modified mosquitoes (GMMs) to fight diseases that mosquitoes carry and spread, such as Malaria and Dengue Fever. In the podcast, Dr. James provides an overview ... |
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Communicating Creatively About Genetically Modified MosquitoesLorraine 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 ... |
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