Recommendations for environmental risk assessment of gene drive applications for malaria vector control
John B. Connolly, John Mumford, Debora C. M. Glandorf, Sarah Hartley, Owen T. Lewis, Sam Weiss Evans, Geoff Turner, Camilla Beech, Naima Sykes, Mamadou B. Coulibaly, Jörg Romeis, John L. Teem, Willy K. Tonui, Brian Lovett, Aditi Mankad, Abraham Mnzava, Silke Fuchs, Talya D. Hackett, Wayne G. Landis, John M. Marshall, Fred Aboagye‐Antwi
Abstract
Building on an exercise that identified potential harms from simulated investigational releases of a population suppression gene drive for malaria vector control, a series of online workshops identified nine recommendations to advance future environmental risk assessment of gene drive applications.
Topics & Concepts
Vector controlMalariaGene driveVector (molecular biology)Risk assessmentPublic healthPopulationControl (management)Environmental healthRisk analysis (engineering)MedicineBiologyComputer scienceGeneEngineeringPathologyArtificial intelligenceGeneticsComputer securityElectrical engineeringRecombinant DNACRISPRInduction motorVoltageCRISPR and Genetic EngineeringMosquito-borne diseases and controlInsect Resistance and Genetics