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

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Using a Gen Drive to Eliminate Justesmiasis

A jean drive system does exactly the same thing as a yeast jean for what's called a homing ino nucleus. It cuts versions of the chromosome that don't have it and then copies itself over. If you could save half a million children every year, that'd be pretty amazing. And if we could do it for malaria, then why not to eradicate sesta samiasis?

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