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The Skeptics Guide #941 - Jul 22 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Role of CRISPR in the Evolution of Malaria

CRISPR is the actual, the palindromic repeat, right? It's the actual kind of coding region. And in doing so, we can literally change the genetics of an organism. So what about adding this to mosquitoes? How do we induce a change, a genetically modified mosquito,. utilizing a gene drive so that it just floods through the population very, very quickly that fights malaria.

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