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Read Replies (2) | Respond to Covid was pandemic in the way seasonal flu is pandemic, it never required superhuman intervention. foe.org wyss.harvard.edu Since the 1940s, researchers have thought of using gene drives to eradicate population s of pests and disease vectors, and to reduce or eliminate invasive species that wreak havoc on natural ecosystems. The idea of a gene drive stems from nature itself, where in sexually reproducing organisms a certain version of a gene is preferentially passed on to the next generation to over time become the dominant one in a population. Deployed willfully in human intervention efforts, a propagated dominant gene modification could, for example, by biassing the production of one sex over the other over many generations, force a deleterious disease vector to decline and lose its dangerous potential. Wyss Institute researchers have leveraged the versatile RNA-guided genome editing tool CRISPR-Cas9, which they previously helped develop, as a part of synthetic DNA-modifying gene drives that in principle can swipe across large populations, potentially changing gender ratios or other biological traits in the process.
