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Fight Malaria One Mosquito at a Time by Altering DNA

1 points by daughart 12y ago

daughart 12y ago
In papers published yesterday in eLife and Science, Harvard scientists including George Church reveal how Cas9/CRISPR genome editing tools can be used to create powerful "gene drives" to artificially shape the evolution of populations. Source articles: eLife: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.03401 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.03401 Science: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1254287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1254287