Wolbachia versus Gene Drives for Mosquito Control (Biotechnology and Society 2016)
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Everyone: Overview
Required Reading/Viewing
- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gene-drives-spread-their-wings?mode=pick&context=170
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD8SmacBUcU
- Mosquito Is Next Weapon to Fight Malaria Caroline ChenBloomberg News June 16, 2016.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V9gbgICPKY
- http://nas-sites.org/gene-drives/
Additional Resources
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1691325/
- Regulating gene drives https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25035410
- Concerning RNA-guided gene drives for the alteration of wild populations. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=25035423
Wolbachia Czar
Required Reading/Viewing
- http://www.nature.com/news/us-reviews-plan-to-infect-mosquitoes-with-bacteria-to-stop-disease-1.19967
- https://www.wired.com/2016/08/california-city-fending-off-zika-releasing-40000-mosquitoes-every-week/
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-tiny-bacterium-called-wolbachia-could-defeat-dengue/
- http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0002688
Medea Gene Drive Czar
- Akbari, O. S., C.-H. Chen, J. M. Marshall, H. Huang, I. Antoshechkin, and B. A. Hay, 2014 Novel synthetic Medea selfish genetic elements drive population replacement in Drosophila; a theoretical exploration of Medea-dependent population suppression. ACS synthetic biology 3(12): 915–928.
- A synthetic gene drive system for local, reversible modification and suppression of insect populations. Akbari OS, Matzen KD, Marshall JM, Huang H, Ward CM, Hay BA. Curr Biol. 2013 Apr 22; 23(8):671-7.
- Comment: Insect biotechnology: controllable replacement of disease vectors. Wimmer EA. Curr Biol. 2013 May 20;23(10):R453-6.
- http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v17/n3/full/nrg.2015.34.html?WT.feed_name=subjects_synthetic-biology