Biotech & Genetics · Recorded milestone

CRISPR gene drive

Recorded year2015

Valentino Gantz and Ethan Bier build a CRISPR gene drive that spreads itself through fruit flies, then malaria mosquitoes, beating normal inheritance.

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Built on

CRISPR gene editingRecorded · 2012enables

Led to

Gene-drive mosquitoesForecast · ~2034enables

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.