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#2 - How to Use Gene Drives to Kill All Mosquitoes
A Beginner's Guide to Playing God
25 minutes
4 years ago
#2 - How to Use Gene Drives to Kill All Mosquitoes
Mosquitoes carry diseases that kill more than 700,000 people every year... but do they deserve a death sentence? On this episode, we discuss a controversial technology called a "gene drive" that could allow us to wipe out disease-carrying mosquitoes. Should we use it? And what could go wrong?
Highlights: what male mosquitoes eat, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, flesh-eating maggots, Nazis dropping mosquitoes out of airplanes
A Beginner's Guide to Playing God
A podcast where we teach you how to use (or abuse) science to shape the world.
