It&#x27;s not the same.<p>The modified mosquitoes in the article breed sterile offspring. The modification doesn&#x27;t go beyond that. This has been already done in the wild.<p>As far as I know, genetic drive have not been used outside the labs. It works by &quot;imposing&quot; the inheritance of a selected gen even if it is bad for the individual.<p>Theoretically, this could be used for change a full population or even exterminate it. It seems that a first candidate that everybody think about is mosquitoes.