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Researchers are pursuing strategies in mosquito genetic engineering to control mosquito populations and prevent disease transmission such as malaria. A new Texas A&M AgriLife Research project aims to enable temporary “test runs” of proposed genetic changes in mosquitoes, after which the changes remove themselves from the mosquitoes’ genetic code.
The project’s first results were published on Dec. 28, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, titled “Making gene drive biodegradable.”
Zach Adelman, professor Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Entomology
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To control mosquito populations and prevent them from transmitting diseases such as malaria, many researchers are pursuing strategies in mosquito genetic engineering. A new Texas A&M AgriLife Research project aims to enable temporary test runs of proposed genetic changes in mosquitoes, after which the changes remove themselves from the mosquitoes genetic code.
The project s first results were published on Dec. 28 in
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, titled Making gene drive biodegradable.
Zach Adelman, Ph.D, and Kevin Myles, Ph.D., both professors in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Entomology are the principal investigators. Over five years, the team will receive $3.9 million in funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to test and fine-tune the self-deleting gene technology.