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Special Episode: Recipes for Future Plagues
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Boka: "I spent the first day kind of euphoric, and doing research to see whether it would actually work" The next day i woke up in a cold sweat, because i was thinking what about misuse? Sure you can engineer a mosquito so it can't carry a disease. How much of a problem would misuse be? And it seemed rather frightening because you could imagine people weaponizing the natural world," he says. Boka's invention is called an immunizing reversal drive (IRD), which works only on sexually reproducing organisms with crisper genom.
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