Gene-Editing Might Eradicate Disease-Or Be Pandora’s Box In A Bottle

What if you could stop mosquito-borne diseases before you ever needed to make medicines to treat them? And what if the seeds of destruction for dengue, zika, and malaria could be carried in the genes of mosquitoes themselves?

This future is not here … but it may be nearer than you know.

In this episode, we talk Mendelian genetics, CRISPR, and gene drives. Oh my.

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