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This are some amazing buzz words your have learned. "Malaria probably can be eliminated for single digit millions of dollars through gene drive against specifi
by jayalpha 8y ago
This are some amazing buzz words your have learned.
"Malaria probably can be eliminated for single digit millions of dollars through gene drive against specific species of mosquitoes which carry it."
Probably. And to throw a mutagenic chain reaction against evolutionary pressure, what possibly could go wrong? And why does this not work in the lab and why do mosquitoes develop resistance against gene drive after a few generations?
- bilbo0s 8y agoIt never ceases to amaze me how easy people like HN User "rdl" believe fixing Malaria is. They think we can just wave a magic wand, and all of a sudden the world would be rid of Malarial disease. Do they think idiots have been working on this problem for the past 2 or 3 hundred years? Malaria is one of the most savagely cunning bugs around. Given the history of our fight against it, to imply that we are going to get rid of it with a bit of genetic pixie dust is just astoundingly naive.
- rdl 8y agoJust like we got rid of smallpox with (initially) cowpox pixie dust? Or are very close to getting rid of polio with vaccine pixie dust? (Massive amounts of work to deploy each of these to the entire affected populations, but at core the technology is what makes it possible.)