Here's the Plan to End Malaria With Crispr-Edited Mosquitoes
Here's the Plan to End Malaria With Crispr-Edited Mosquitoes
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
September 25, 20186m 26s
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Show Notes
In 2003, scientists at London’s Imperial College hatched a somewhat out-there idea. They wanted to deal with the increasingly pesticide-resistant mosquitoes that were killing half a million people a year by spreading malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. What biologists Austin Burt and Andrea Crisanti proposed was nothing short of hacking the laws of heredity.
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