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#2 - How to Use Gene Drives to Kill All Mosquitoes

#2 - How to Use Gene Drives to Kill All Mosquitoes

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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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