Gene drives gaining speed

E Bier - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Gene drives are selfish genetic elements that are transmitted to progeny at super-Mendelian
(> 50%) frequencies. Recently developed CRISPR–Cas9-based gene-drive systems are …

Combating mosquito-borne diseases using genetic control technologies

GH Wang, S Gamez, RR Raban, JM Marshall… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Mosquito-borne diseases, such as dengue and malaria, pose significant global health
burdens. Unfortunately, current control methods based on insecticides and environmental …

Efficient population modification gene-drive rescue system in the malaria mosquito Anopheles stephensi

A Adolfi, VM Gantz, N Jasinskiene, HF Lee… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Cas9/gRNA-mediated gene-drive systems have advanced development of genetic
technologies for controlling vector-borne pathogen transmission. These technologies …

Core commitments for field trials of gene drive organisms

KC Long, L Alphey, GJ Annas, CS Bloss, KJ Campbell… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Gene drive organisms (GDOs), whose genomes have been genetically engineered to
spread a desired allele through a population, have the potential to transform the way …

Symbionts and gene drive: two strategies to combat vector-borne disease

GH Wang, J Du, CY Chu, M Madhav, GL Hughes… - Trends in Genetics, 2022 - cell.com
Mosquitoes bring global health problems by transmitting parasites and viruses such as
malaria and dengue. Unfortunately, current insecticide-based control strategies are only …

A CRISPR homing gene drive targeting a haplolethal gene removes resistance alleles and successfully spreads through a cage population

J Champer, E Yang, E Lee, J Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Engineered gene drives are being explored as a new strategy in the fight against vector-
borne diseases due to their potential for rapidly spreading genetic modifications through a …

Inherently confinable split-drive systems in Drosophila

G Terradas, AB Buchman, JB Bennett, I Shriner… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
CRISPR-based gene-drive systems, which copy themselves via gene conversion mediated
by the homology-directed repair (HDR) pathway, have the potential to revolutionize vector …

Manipulating the destiny of wild populations using CRISPR

R Raban, JM Marshall, BA Hay… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Genetic biocontrol aims to suppress or modify populations of species to protect public
health, agriculture, and biodiversity. Advancements in genome engineering technologies …

Computational and experimental performance of CRISPR homing gene drive strategies with multiplexed gRNAs

SE Champer, SY Oh, C Liu, Z Wen, AG Clark… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The rapid evolution of resistance alleles poses a major obstacle for genetic manipulation of
populations with CRISPR homing gene drives. One proposed solution is using multiple …

Anopheles homing suppression drive candidates exhibit unexpected performance differences in simulations with spatial structure

SE Champer, IK Kim, AG Clark, PW Messer, J Champer - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Recent experiments have produced several Anopheles gambiae homing gene drives that
disrupt female fertility genes, thereby eventually inducing population collapse. Such drives …