Genetic biocontrol aims to suppress or modify populations of species to protect public
health, agriculture, and biodiversity. Advancements in genome engineering technologies …

Mosquito-borne illnesses represent a significant global health peril, resulting in
approximately one million fatalities annually. West Nile, dengue, Zika, and malaria are …

Genetic biocontrol technologies present promising and eco-friendly strategies for the
management of pest and insect-transmitted diseases. Although considerable advancements …

Each year, hundreds of millions of people are infected with arboviruses such as dengue,
yellow fever, chikungunya, and Zika, which are all primarily spread by the notorious …

Promising to provide powerful genetic control tools, gene drives have been constructed in
multiple dipteran insects, yeast, and mice for the purposes of population elimination or …

Controlling the principal African malaria vector, the mosquito Anopheles gambiae, is
considered essential to curtail malaria transmission. However, existing vector control …

The genetics of the sex determination regulatory cascade in Drosophila melanogaster has a
fascinating history, interlinked with the foundation of the Genetics discipline itself. The …

Genetic control strategies such as the sterile insect technique have successfully fought
insect pests worldwide. The CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic …

One method for reducing the impact of vector-borne diseases is through the use of CRISPR-
based gene drives, which manipulate insect populations due to their ability to rapidly …

Sex determination pathways in insects are generally characterised by an upstream primary
signal, which is highly variable across species, and that regulates the splicing of a suite of …