Researchers have used gene editing to completely eliminate populations of mosquitoes in the lab. The team tested their technique on the mosquito Anopheles gambiae, which transmits malaria.

The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety 1 is the fundamental document of the United Nations on the responsible use of genetically modified (GM) organisms. Although the protocol applies to GM ...

James and others say that editing mosquitoes with CRISPR—and using a gene drive to make those changes permanent—offers a far better approach. Scientists used conventional genetic engineering ...

Gene-editing tools heralded as hope for fighting invader rats, malarial mosquitoes and other scourges may be too powerful to use in their current form, two new papers warn. Standard forms of ...

From genetically modified mosquitoes to clinical therapies, learn how scientists apply gene editing techniques to answer a ...

The mosquitoes (code-named OX5034 ... and slow until the development of the CRISPR technique and other "gene-editing" technology this decade. Now scientists can target exactly which genes they ...

GENETICALLY engineered "toxic male" mosquitoes could help kill off disease-spreading females. Scientists say the gene-hacked male insects can cull female numbers by mating with venomous semen.

Dylan Rees delves into how new research involving sterilised male mosquitos could benefit humans in preventing the spread of diseases.

Malaria, a disease that has plagued humanity for centuries, continues to claim millions of lives each year. But scientists may have found a new way to combat this deadly disease. In clinical ...