CRISPR "Drives" Out Fungal Resistance

Gene drives have received their fair share of controversy in the past several years, as the technology has evolved to the point of where it could push a species to the point of extinction, which has been argued by some—in the case of malaria-carrying mosquitoes—to be an ecological risk worth taking. Yet, gene drives need not be an all-or-nothing approach with respect to pathogen resistance. The investigators at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, within Harvard