Funded by a $100,000,000 grant from Bill Gates biologists have found a way
to make a species of mosquitoes go extinct using CRISPR genetic engineering
technology to connect a sterility gene to a Gene Driver:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4245
Normally if you have a gene there is only a 50%
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:08:10PM -0400, John Clark wrote:
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> Mosquitoes carry many diseases, malaria alone killed 450,000 people last year
> and made many millions more very sick, nevertheless self styled guardians of
> morality are already calling for a moratorium on the use of this technology
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 3:04 AM Russell Standish
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> *It's not morality, but the precautionary principle in action.*
Every single year you delay doing this you will be condemning 725,000
people to die from malaria and other diseases and incapacitate hundreds of
millions more for weeks at a
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 01:22:06PM -0400, John Clark wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 3:04 AM Russell Standish
> wrote:
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> > It's not morality, but the precautionary principle in action.
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>
> Every single year you delay doing this you will be condemning 725,000 people
> to
> die from
Russell Standish wrote:
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> *>There is also the possibility of wholesale ecosystem collapse, notjust
> some birds. Do you know that these mosquitos _aren't_ a keystonespecies?*
I don't know anything for certain about the environment and never will but
I have a strong hunch the 40 mosquito spec
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 01:42:02PM -0400, John Clark wrote:
> Russell Standish wrote:
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> >There is also the possibility of wholesale ecosystem collapse, not
> just some birds. Do you know that these mosquitos _aren't_ a keystone
> species?
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> I don't know anything for certain
> With the calici trial, the right things were being done, but then some
> idiot (probably with your mindset) decided to release the virus on the
> mainland anyway. Fortunately, in that case, we dodged a bullet. Not so
> with cane toads, or the bloody rabbits in the first place.
Even before the ag
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 8:31 PM Russell Standish
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>>I do know for certain that for 725,000 people each and every year NOT
>> using Gene Drive WILL be the equivalent to the Chicxulub Event .
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> > *That's a big exaggeration. Name one species that's going extinct due
> to malaria, as comp
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 06:13:24PM -0400, John Clark wrote:
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> Is it different with people, do you know the impact removing 725,000 people
> from the realm of the living every year will have? If not and their impacts
> are
> equally unknown then I think you should give the benefit of the doub
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 7:23 PM Russell Standish
wrote:
> Is it different with people, do you know the impact removing 725,000
>> people from the realm of the living every year will have? If not and
>> their impacts are equally unknown then I think you should give the
>> benefit of the doubt to
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 09:08:38PM -0400, John Clark wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 7:23 PM Russell Standish
> wrote:
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> > Is it different with people, do you know the impact removing 725,000
> people from the realm of the living every year will have? If not and
>
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 11:23 PM Russell Standish
wrote:
> *Over 10 years (say) 7 million lives are lost, diminishing our capacity
> for producing the next Einstein by 0.1%. *
Well 0.1% is pretty low, but I have a hunch the probability of one of 7
million mosquitoes becoming the next Einste
We may well be able to get rid of these specific mosquito species, this
may well end up proven to be a safe and effective thing to do. Also what
John mentioned a while back in this tread about genetically modified
rice that contains vitamin A is probably going to work well.
However, the reason
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