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#077 Rewriting genomes to eradicate disease and aging | Dr. George Church
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The Gean Drive and Malaria
One area of research that you've been involved in is the gean drive. Using it to eradicate insect carrying human disease like malaria. You see, you can do gene drives whose intention is to make a species resistant to a something that's bad for a third species. So for example, you could make a mosquitoes a resistant to malaria, they don't carry it on to human so there's a three species problem. And you're not really making anything extinct, necessarily. Although, since malaria is a human specific disease, you might make malaria extinct. But you could, inadvertently, i think the sonara you 're painting here, inadvertently make that mosquito ixtinct as well.
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