{"id":74127,"date":"2017-12-02T17:02:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T01:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/microsofts-gates-to-genetically-engineer-laser-lit-mosquitoes-using-gene-drive"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:00:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:00:53","slug":"microsofts-gates-to-genetically-engineer-laser-lit-mosquitoes-using-gene-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/microsofts-gates-to-genetically-engineer-laser-lit-mosquitoes-using-gene-drive","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s Gates to Genetically Engineer Laser Lit Mosquitoes Using Gene Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsofts-gates-to-genetically-engineer-laser-lit-mosquitoes-using-gene-drive.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Summary: Will gene drive wipe out malaria-causing mosquitoes, or will the genetic technology that \u2018spreads like wildfire\u2019 cause a catastrophe? Gene drive raises hopes and fears as a team of scientists funded by the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation are using it to wipe out the mosquitoes that carry malaria, to eradicate the disease. [This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/about\/\">LongevityFacts<\/a>. Follow us on<a href=\"https:\/\/redd.it\/77bpac\"> Reddit<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+LongevityFacts\">Google+<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/longevityfacts\/\">Facebook<\/a>. Author: <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+BCHartman\">Brady Hartman<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a basement lab at the Imperial College London (ICL), a group of researchers led by Andrew Hammond are on a mission to wipe out malaria. The scientists are funded by the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation and are using a technology called gene drive \u2013 a souped-up form of genetic engineering designed to wipe out the mosquitoes that carry the disease.<\/p>\n<p>The lab contains cages of mosquitoes modified with the gene drive, along with an additional gene that makes their eyes and other body parts glow red under laser light.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/gene-drive-microsofts-bill-gates-genetically-engineer-laser-lit-mosquitos-crispr-cas9\/\">http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/gene-drive-microsofts-bill-gates-g...ispr-cas9\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Will gene drive wipe out malaria-causing mosquitoes, or will the genetic technology that \u2018spreads like wildfire\u2019 cause a catastrophe? Gene drive raises hopes and fears as a team of scientists funded by the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation are using it to wipe out the mosquitoes that carry malaria, to eradicate the disease. [This [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74240,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74127\/revisions\/74240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}