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When evolution and biotechnologies collide

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Phys.org

Publication Date
2017-07-21

The technique, called "gene drive", can propagate a new gene in the whole population of organisms in a few generations. Once the introduced gene is installed in the population, one may call them… GMOs. One of the most promising application would be to eradicate mosquitoes by spreading mutations that cause infertisity, but as explained in a 2017 article in the journal Nature, can be thwarted by evolution itself.

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https://phys.org/news/2017-07-evolution-biotechnologies-collide.html