Opinion: Gene-drive technology must be developed in a safe, ethical way
Gene drive has the potential to do harm as well as good. We need to develop it the right way.
We need powerful tools to take on the deadliest creature in the world: mosquitoes.
Mosquitoes spread malaria, a disease that sickens more than 200 million people each year and kills 430,000. Genetically engineering mosquitoes to stop the spread of malaria offers great promise in saving many of these lives, and could add an estimated $4 trillion to the global economy over the next 14 years.
A new technology known as can increase the likelihood that desirable engineered traits in a mosquito are passed on
