It's not the same. The modified mosquitoes in the article breed sterile offspring. The modification doesn't go beyond that. This has been already done in the w

It's not the same. The modified mosquitoes in the article breed sterile offspring. The modification doesn't go beyond that. This has been already done in the wild. As far as I know, genetic drive have not been used outside the labs. It works by "imposing" the inheritance of a selected gen even if it is bad for the individual. Theoretically, this could be used for change a full population or even exterminate it. It seems that a first candidate that everybody think about is mosquitoes.