[ExI] crispr question

[John Clark]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 1:50 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:



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> Ja, or another slight variation on the theme: breed mosquitoes with some
> kind of DNA variation-driver until we discover a mosquito which does not
> bite humans.
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​Only female mosquitoes bite animals, and with CRISPR and Gene Drive you
could arrange things such that all a individual's offspring were male, and
all their offspring were male,  and all the offspring of the offspring were
male, and all.... Before long all mosquitoes would be male. After that ,
well....

 John K Clark


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