NIH R01 · 2024
The mutagenic chain reaction: a method for autocatalyic gene dissemination
Following a decade of significant strides forward, the global malaria eradication agenda has stalled, due in part to the accelerating emergence of insecticide-resistant mosquitoes and drug-resistant malarial parasites. The World Health Organization and others have called for the development of new strategies to help defeat this devastating disease that infects over 2 million people and killing over 400,000 annually, predominantly young children in impoverished regions. Gene-drives, which can bias inheritance of desired traits, offer a novel and promising strategy either to eliminate disease causing insect vectors, or to immunize them against pathogens. Such super-Mendelian CRIPSR-based…
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