The Gates Foundation denied claims linking it to a surge in genetically modified mosquitoes in Kenya, clarifying its role in the matter At the heart of the debate is gene drive technology, a ...

Tumors and swarms of disease-carrying insects may not seem to have much in common, until you try to destroy them. Pesticide by pesticide, or chemotherapeutic by chemotherapeutic, the very thing you’re ...

The words “herpes” and “spread” in the same sentence don’t typically spell good news. Unless, that is, you’re talking about a busybody new virus. That virus includes designer DNA called a gene drive ...

Mosquitoes are an uncomfortable, itchy nuisance. But for people in sub-Saharan Africa, a bite could mean death. The pests are living incubators for the parasite that causes malaria. Roughly 600,000 ...