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Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
#2 - How to Use Gene Drives to Kill All Mosquitoes
Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
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
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