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The effort with mosquitos didn’t work. Forcing a gene with negative impact on survivability is touch
by jncfhnb 3y ago
The effort with mosquitos didn’t work. Forcing a gene with negative impact on survivability is touch
- ed_balls 3y agomosquitos are hard, but with ticks there are a few different vectors of attack. My understanding is that ticks first need to bite a rodent that is infected to spread Lyme, so maybe gene editing on rodents?
- coryrc 3y agoWhere has it actually been tried?
- jncfhnb 3y agoGoogle it. They released female mosquitos with a bad gene and they almost immediately got selected out.