DNA is Not Destiny (rebroadcast)
Big Picture Science
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Eliminate Malaria With Crisper
Crisper is being used to genetically modify squitoes in order to eradicate malaria. What james wants to do is to produce a population of mosquitoes that cannot carry malaria. A person sick with malaria has the parasite in their blood. Mosquito bites them in the parasite and then goes off and bites somebody else, spreads the disease so what if a mosquito, as soon as it took in the malaria parasite, killed a parasite with its own annabodies? Then you would break the chain and malaria would disappear.
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