Inside the lab breeding malaria resistant GM mosquitoes

Tags: Gene drive, Malaria, Video
Reuters,  YouTube,  2025. Video
An international team of scientists are developing genetically modified mosquitoes that can slowly convert the entire wild population of mosquitoes resistant to transmitting malaria, the world’s most deadly disease.

What Is Gene Drive? – Biology For Everyone

Tags: Gene drive, Video
Biology for Everyone,  YouTube,  2025. Video
What Is Gene Drive? In this informative video, we will introduce you to the intriguing concept of gene drive, a revolutionary technology that enables the rapid transmission of specific traits within a species. We will break down the mechanics of how gene drive works, including ...

What are the evolutionary considerations of rodent gene drives for conservation and human health?

Tags: Biodiversity/Conservation, Gene drive, Rodents, Video
Triangle Center for Evolutionary Medicine,  YouTube,  2025. Video
Biodiversity, human health, and food security can all be impacted by invasive rodents. These negative impacts are particularly seen on islands, where rodent eradications with traditional methods can sometimes fail due to evolutionary resistance. Gene drives may offer an approach ...

TWiV 1161: Baby you can drive my gene

Tags: Gene drive, Vector control, Video
MicrobeTV,  YouTube,  2024. Video
TWiV reviews continuing expansion of poliovirus type 2, removal of influenza B/Yamagata from the vaccine, Nobel Prize for miRNAs, protective immune response with a adenovirus-associated virus vector expressing a computationally designed hemagglutinin, and viral gene drive during ...

GeneConvene Global Collaborative | Considerations for the First Field Trials of Gene Drive for Malaria

Tags: Field trials, Gene drive, Malaria, Regulation, Video
GeneConvene Global Collaborative,  YouTube,  2024. Video
A webinar organized by the GeneConvene Global Collaborative discussed the potential first field trials of gene drive technology for malaria control. This genetic modification approach aims to alter mosquito populations to reduce their ability to transmit malaria. While laboratory ...

Why are gene drive technologies being considered to help restore biodiversity on islands?

Tags: Biodiversity/Conservation, Ecology, Gene drive, Invasive species, Video
Outreach Network for Gene Drive Research,  2024. Video
Researchers have been studying how to harness gene drives to solve some of society’s most intractable problems for a long time. Public health and ecosystem conservation are two of the main areas where research has focused, although other uses are also possible.

How to Use Genetic Biocontrol to Manage Insect Pests

Tags: Genetic biocontrol, Mosquitoes, Pest management, Video
Scientific Animations Without Borders,  YouTube,  2024. Video
Pest insects often transmit disease to humans and animals and destroy crops. Controlling these pests can improve human health and increase agricultural production. Pest insects are often controlled by releasing other insects into the environment that will specifically kill the ...

SPOTLIGHT: Gene Drives for Malaria Elimination in Africa

Tags: Africa, Gene drive, Malaria, Video
Ifakara Health Institute,  YouTube,  2024. Video
This SPOTLIGHT Series features Dr. Marceline Finda, a distinguished Research Scientist at Ifakara Health Institute. The insightful 20-minute discussion centered around the topic: "Gene Drives for Malaria Elimination in Africa."

Gene Drives: Mechanisms and Key Research, Explained

Tags: CRISPR, Gene drive, Video
Julia Bauman,  60 Second Science,  2024. Video
A technical primer on CRISPR-based gene drives, which hold massive potential for mitigating the harms invoked by some species. We cover what a gene drive is, how it works at the genetic level, and summarize key safety & efficiency features developed in recent years.

ISAAA Inc. | Genetic Tools For Conservation and Health: What’s The Role of Gene Drives?

Tags: Biodiversity/Conservation, Gene drive, Video, Webinar
Kristine Grace N. Tome,  Science Speaks,  2023. Link Video
ISAAA Inc., in partnership with the Outreach Network for Gene Drive Research and the Malaysian Biotechnology Information Centre (MABIC), gathered approximately 834 online participants during the webinar Genetic Tools for Conservation and Health: What's the Role of Gene Drives? ...

Regulation of gene drive technologies for malaria control & elimination

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Ifakara Health Institute,  2023. Video
The video talks about the importance of ensuring effective and thoughtful community and stakeholder engagement throughout research, development and deployment of gene drives for malaria control.

Biotechnology and Biosafety in the Biodiversity Convention and its Protocols

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GeneConvene Global Collaborative,  2022. Video
Dr. Piet van der Meer provides a clear exposition of the history of the Convention on Biological Diversity and puts in the the broader context of the development of biotechnology beginning with the first recombinant DNA containing organisms in 1972. He also describes and ...

Gene Drive research Forum: Unsettled issues in gene drive research

Tags: Ethics, Video
2021. Video

How do local communities participate in gene drive research?

Tags: Gene drive, Governance, Stakeholder engagement, Video
Outreach Network for Gene Drive Research,  2021. Video
How do local communities participate in gene drive research?

ARRIGE 2020 Meeting | The promise of CRISPR and gene drive systems to end malaria in Africa

Tags: Africa, Gene drive synthetic, Population modification/replacement, Population suppression, Stakeholder engagement, Target malaria, Video, Webinar
E. Gomez-Diaz,  ARRIGE org,  2020. Video
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

Regional Development of Regulatory Policies on Gene Drives and Risk Assessment

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GeneConvene Virtual Institute,  2020. Video
In this Webinar Dr. Martin Lema discusses how well biosafety regulatory frameworks in Latin America can accommodate new genetic technologies such as Gene Drive.

Overview of Regulatory Frameworks Covering Gene Drives Oct 21 2020

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GeneConvene Virtual Institute,  2020. Video
These are two webinars presented around the topic of an Overview of Regulatory Frameworks Covering Gene Drives. The presenters were Ms. Wadzi Mandivenyi from the Convention on Biological Diversity and Dr. Marion Law from the World Health Organization. These presentations were ...

What are gene drives about?

Tags: Gene drive synthetic, Risk and safety, Video
EFSAchannel,  2020. Video
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 ...

Davos 2020 World Economic Forum | When Humankind Overrides Evolution

Tags: Evolution, Gene drive synthetic, Video
M. Skipper,  World Economic Forum,  Davos 2020. 2020. Video
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?

Gene Editing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Tags: Gene editing, Video
J. Oliver,  HBO,  2018. Video
Scientists are developing new ways to alter the genetic code of living organisms. John Oliver explores the risks, rewards, and wolf-related hazards of gene editing.

The Sterile Insect Technique

Tags: Sterile insect technique (SIT), Video
IAEA/FAO,  2015. Video
For over 50 years, the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) has been successfully used around the world to tackle pests that destroy fruit and kill livestock. The method uses radiation to sterilize male flies, which are mass-produced in rearing facilities. Large numbers of sterile ...