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Dangerous biological research - is it worth it? (Kevin Esvelt)

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Using Crisper Based Gen Drives to Eliminate Malaria

There's only a handful of examples where you'd want to change he whole species. But the obvious candidate is malarial mosquitoes. If we either engineered them so they couldn't carry malaria any longer, or if we reduced their population so they're at a sufficiently low density that they just can't sustain malarial transmission between people,. then that could be a critical component for eradicating malaria once and for all.

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