New Model Warns About Crispr Gene Drives in the Wild

Re:New Model Warns About Crispr Gene Drives in the Wild by Balgair on Friday December 15, 2017 @02:11PM (#15934212)

What? I'm not understanding your reasoning here.

The issue is not about land area, it's about fauna biomass location. Think more like this:

https://static6.businessinsider.com/image/582c7dd8ba6eb69a01...

On the vaccination issue, I encourage you to look up Jenner and his realization of the link between cowpox and smallpox. It's a good foundation for GP's idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Jenner#Invention_of_the...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1200696/

I'm not certain of mosquito-per-fauna-biomass distributions, nor GP's thesis, but it's not a bad one overall and may have merit.

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Re:New Model Warns About Crispr Gene Drives in the Wild by thriftwy on Friday December 15, 2017 @02:34PM (#15934373)

If arid land can do well without mosquitoes, perhaps wetter land can do too. Have more flies for example.

If people in arid land can live healthy without mosquitoes, I think it's a good bet that people in wetter land can too.

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