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If you make a gene drive you are a scientist. Hopefully whoever decides to just go do it has the sense to only target mosquitoes that preferentially feed on hu
by maxerickson 6y ago
If you make a gene drive you are a scientist.
Hopefully whoever decides to just go do it has the sense to only target mosquitoes that preferentially feed on humans. Much less ecosystem impact that way.
- danielheath 6y ago> If you make a gene drive you are a scientist. These days, introducing a known mutation via a CRISPR gene drive is engineering. The hard part is scaling it so your mutation doesn't die out, testing to ensure that it is actually propagating, etc. > Hopefully whoever decides to just go do it has the sense to only target mosquitoes that preferentially feed on humans. You have to repeat a considerable amount work for every single target species. I highly doubt they'd target more than one.
- maxerickson 6y agoThere's several species that preferentially feed on humans and we've done a banger spreading them around.