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IPFS News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology

Gene editing can now change an entire species -- forever

• http://www.ted.com, Jennifer Kahn

More than anything, the technology has led to questions: How will this new power affect humanity? What are we going to use it to change? Are we gods now? Join journalist Jennifer Kahn as she ponders these questions and shares a potentially powerful application of gene drives: the development of disease-resistant mosquitoes that could knock out malaria and Zika.


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