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