World Malaria Day 2022
What risks are we willing to take to (maybe) end malaria?
25.04.22 - After a tremendous decrease in malaria cases in the last two decades, malaria is on the rise again, having killed 677.000 people in 2020, among them 80% children under 5. Apart from being deadly, malaria is detrimental for the livelihoods of entire families, communities and countries: farmers not being able to sow their…
Anwendungen
Anwendungen von Gene Drives
Gene Drives eröffnen zahlreiche neue Anwendungsmöglichkeiten.
Aktuell konzentriert sich die Forschung auf drei Gebiete:
die Kontrolle von Krankheitsüberträgern
das Entfernen invasiver Arten aus empfindlichen Ökosystemen und
das Eindämmen sogenannter Schädlinge in der Landwirtschaft.
Gene Drives zur Beseitigung…
Can gene drives spread between mosquito species?
Can gene drives spread between mosquito species?
The issue of Malaria in Africa has for a long time been at the forefront of the discussion about gene drive technology. Leading the research is Target Malaria, a non-profit aimed at using genetic means to eliminate malaria. However, despite the initial success in their laboratory studies, there are glaring open questions and unknowns around…
International negotiations on Gene Drives resume in person
15.04.22, Berlin -The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UN CBD) and its sub-protocols are the world's most important forums for establishing internationally binding regulations for Gene Drive technology. For the first time since the beginning of the COVID pandemic - after more than two years of repeated postponements and online meetings - government officials, civil society, scientists and…
300,000 EU citizens call on German environmental minister Steffi Lemke: Stop Gene Drives!
Berlin, 31 May 2022 - Almost 300,000 citizens of the European Union are calling for a global moratorium on the first field release of genetically modified gene drive organisms. The associations Save Our Seeds, the Aurelia Foundation and the Munich Environmental Institute, which are part of the European Stop Gene Drive campaign, handed over a petition to this effect to the German environmental…
World Wildlife Day
World Wildlife Day:
Dreams & nightmares of genetically engineering wildlife.
Why conservation organisations across the world need to speak up!
Most people in the EU – including civil society organisations - are opposed to genetically manipulating food crops but unaware that the scope of genetic engineering projects has shifted radically in the past decade. With the advent of…
A new vaccine against malaria
A new vaccine against Malaria
This month saw another breakthrough in the treatment and prevention of malaria, this time with the publication of the phase 2 clinical trial results of the new University of Oxford R21 vaccine against malaria. This vaccine demonstrated an 80% efficacy against malaria, the highest efficacy ever seen in a malaria vaccine. Professor Adrian Hill, co-creator of…
The need for horizon scanning and technology assessment to address the evolving nature of genetic engineering
This is an excerpt of a Briefing Paper by Third World Network published in June 2022
Introduction
The governance and regulation of advancing life and agricultural sciences is lagging behind technical innovations and our evolving understanding of the science underpinning genetic engineering technologies. Such technologies, mainly in the form of transgenic techniques, were first commercialized…
Interview with Arnaud Nouvion
Gene Drives will most probably be released first to fight malaria. We therefore created this series of interviews with health care experts, researchers and civil society to amplify their voices and concerns around this technology.
How is the financial situation around Malaria?
“It is great how much money is available these days to fight diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis or aids. The Global…
Interview with Lucile Cornet-Vernet
Gene Drives will most probably be released first to fight malaria. We therefore created this series of interviews with health care experts, researchers and civil society to amplify their voices and concerns around this technology.
How did you get to work on malaria and what are you doing?
Lucile Cornet-Vernet is the founder of “La Maison de l'Artemisia” (engl.: the house of artemisia) founded…