[ExI] CRISPR and Gene Drives

[John Clark]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 7:41 AM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Gene drives could well increase the present extinction rate.
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That is the entire point.
​ Mosquitoes kill 725,000 people each and every year and make many times
that number sick, I would not cry very much if they went extinct. The
smallpox virus is already extinct in the wild and I'm not too upset about
that either.

 John K Clark
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