Recent antimalarial drug discovery has been a race to produce new medicines that
overcome emerging drug resistance, whilst considering safety and improving dosing …

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

Gene drives are a promising means of malaria control with the potential to cause sustained
reductions in transmission. In real environments, however, their impacts will depend on local …

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

Homing-based gene drives are recently proposed interventions promising the area-wide,
species-specific genetic control of harmful insect populations. Here we characterise a first …

Gene drives are engineered alleles that can bias inheritance in their favor, allowing them to
spread throughout a population. They could potentially be used to modify or suppress pest …

Engineered gene drives, which bias their own inheritance to increase in frequency in target
populations, are being developed to control mosquito malaria vectors. Such mosquitoes can …

Highlights•Metal ions affect reproductive physiology in hematophagous and
nonhematophagous insects.•Metal-homeostasis mechanisms may be shared between …

Burmese pythons (Python molurus bivittatus) are native to southeastern Asia, however, there
is an established invasive population inhabiting much of southern Florida throughout the …

Genetic modification for the control of mosquitoes is frequently touted as a solution for a
variety of vector-borne diseases. There has been some success using non-insecticidal …