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Imperial College creates male-biased gene drive mosquito population — a second genetic approach to malaria suppression
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Scientists at Imperial College London, funded by the Gates Foundation through Target Malaria, demonstrated a second genetic approach to Anopheles gambiae population suppression: a CRISPR-based gene drive that biases offspring toward males, causing population decline by reducing the number of biting females. Published in 2020, the male-biased approach complemented the earlier doublesex strain and offered researchers two mechanistically distinct tools — important because different regulatory jurisdictions might approve different drive types, and because having multiple tools increases the probability that at least one achieves regulatory clearance for open field release.
Source: https://targetmalaria.org/latest/blog/2021-progress-during-challenging-times/
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