Since insecticides are the most prevalent way of controlling crop damage from pests, their overuse has rendered pests ...

Insecticides have been used for centuries to counteract widespread pest damage to valuable food crops. Eventually, over time, ...

The Target Malaria UK modeling team at Imperial College London has published their latest study in Nature Communications, ...

A new study explores the impact that mosquitoes modified with the gene drive technology could have on malaria incidence if deployed in West Africa. The Target Malaria UK modelling team at Imperial ...

Genetic engineering in mosquitoes may help in eliminating malaria. Gene drive technology was explored back in 2003. Nearly half of the world’s population lives in areas at risk of malaria.

While standard GM introduces a new, lab-tweaked gene into a organism, gene drive technology goes one stage further. It introduces a gene drive - a lab-created gene that can also automatically ...

22, 2024 — Geneticists have developed a gene drive-based solution to the widespread ... Oct. 28, 2024 — Using state-of-the-art technology, researchers have identified several specific steps ...

ETH Zurich researchers used combined CRISPR techniques to reveal unknown cancer-related mutations in the EGFR gene, ...

and inserted it inside fruit flies as a proof-of-concept technology that could be applied to other insects. They developed the e-Drive to target a gene known as the voltage gated sodium ion ...