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ReviewACS chemical biology2018

Gene Drive: Evolved and Synthetic.

Austin Burt, Andrea Crisanti

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Review in ACS chemical biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
37citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Modeling Control of Invasive Fire Ants by Gene Drive.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  9. A meiotic driver hijacks an epigenetic reader to disrupt mitosis in noncarrier offspring.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Austin BurtLife Sciences, Imperial College , Silwood Park, Ascot, SL5 7PY, United Kingdom.
Andrea CrisantiLife Sciences, Imperial College , South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Drive is a process of accelerated inheritance from one generation to the next that allows some genes to spread rapidly through populations even if they do not contribute to-or indeed even if they detract from-organismal survival and reproduction. Genetic elements that can spread by drive include gametic and zygotic killers, meiotic drivers, homing endonuclease genes, B chromosomes, and transposable elements. The fact that gene drive can lead to the spread of fitness-reducing traits (including lethality and sterility) makes it an attractive process to consider exploiting to control disease vectors and other pests. There are a number of efforts to develop synthetic gene drive systems, particularly focused on the mosquito-borne diseases that continue to plague us.

Indexed as

AnimalsCRISPR-Associated ProteinsEndonucleasesGene Drive TechnologyInsectaRepetitive Sequences, Nucleic AcidCRISPR-Associated ProteinsEndonucleases

Identifiers

PMID29400944
PMCPMC5820655

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Registered trials

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