“This is the first time we’ve shown that we can, in principle, manipulate the fate of an entire species.” Wired on the breakthrough study that could lead us towards ending malaria with Crispr-edited mosquitoes. “This concept of a ‘gene drive’ was decades-old, but no one had successfully concocted one in a lab, let alone applied it to a global public health scourge. Fifteen years and $100 million dollars later, the scientists from Imperial College have finally succeeded.”