While biologists have long imagined
building gene drives, it was the arrival of CRISPR that transformed imagination into application.
That experiment showed that
building a gene drive in mosquitoes is possible.
Not exact matches
Town of West Seneca Councilman
Gene Hart outside the construction site on the north side of the
building at Legion Parkway that has a covered
drive - through.
Gene drives became much easier to
build with CRISPR / Cas9.
As yet, no CRISPR
gene drive has been released in the wild — few have even been
built.
«It's great that they are doing this and we are going to need to
build on it so that we can come up with a good and acceptable testing pathway for these organisms,» says
gene drive pioneer Austin Burt at Imperial College London.
Professor Chris Jones talked to us about
building a world - class research programme focused on finding the
genes that
drive childhood brain tumours, and his hopes for these hard - to - treat cancers.
It is anticipated that within the next few years, several versions of
gene drive will be developed that
build in even more safeguards to eliminate non-target impact.