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 ...

In preclinical work recently published in Nature Communications, Fred Hutch Cancer Center scientists used a genetic “chain reaction” to transform herpes simplex virus DNA during an HSV infection. The ...

Research on gene drive systems is rapidly advancing. Many proposed applications of gene drive research aim to solve environmental and public health challenges. However, due to their intrinsic ...

Bier’s group previously exploited this mutation to develop a gene editing tool, called a gene drive, that reverted the mutated ion channel in a fruit fly model back to the wild type version. 2 Gene ...