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A CRISPR homing gene drive targeting a haplolethal gene removes resistance alleles and successfully spreads through a cage population.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 29 Sept 2020
Champer Jackson, Yang Emily, Lee Esther, Liu Jingxian, Clark Andrew G, Messer Philipp W
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Engineered gene drives are being explored as a new strategy in the fight against vector-borne diseases due to their potential for rapidly spreading genetic modifications through a population. However, CRISPR-based homing gene drives proposed for this purpose have faced a major obstacle in the formation of resistance alleles that prevent Cas9 cleavage. Here, we present a homing drive in Drosophila melanogaster...
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