Researchers Create New System for Safer Gene-Drive Testing and Development

Credit: Bier Lab, UC San Diego

Fruit flies expressing red eye and green body fluorescent markers demonstrated the viability of a new system for safely converting split gene drives into full gene drives.

« Researchers Create New System for Safer Gene-Drive Testing and Development

Credit: Bier Lab, UC San Diego

Hacked drive (graph): Graphic depicts the mathematically predicted frequencies over several generations of a full gene drive (gray), compared with laboratory experiments with a “hacked” split gene drive (orange) and a full gene drive (purple).

« Researchers Create New System for Safer Gene-Drive Testing and Development

Credit: Bier Lab, UC San Diego

Transgenic fruit flies used in gene drive research display three fluorescent transgenes (green for GFP; green; red for DsRed and cyan for CFP).

« Researchers Create New System for Safer Gene-Drive Testing and Development

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