As I mentioned in that post, there are good reasons to not unilaterally release gene drives, so please exercise some restraint. Also it would cost a lot more than $5000 to do it. (Maybe $50,000 on a shoestring budget.)
I didn’t notice any mention of alternative to extinction type gene-drive solutions have been suggested in your investigation on the subject. Would it be that much more trouble to engineer a gene to attack malaria in the mosquito genome rather than one that sterilizes the female and leads to extinction?
Seems like that would address some/most of the ecological impact fears if we just gave the mosquito antibodies to kill the virus than killing off the mosquitos which do seem to have a role in a broader ecological context.
I guess this was inspired by my recent post: https://denovo.substack.com/p/gene-drives-why-the-wait
As I mentioned in that post, there are good reasons to not unilaterally release gene drives, so please exercise some restraint. Also it would cost a lot more than $5000 to do it. (Maybe $50,000 on a shoestring budget.)
I didn’t notice any mention of alternative to extinction type gene-drive solutions have been suggested in your investigation on the subject. Would it be that much more trouble to engineer a gene to attack malaria in the mosquito genome rather than one that sterilizes the female and leads to extinction?
Seems like that would address some/most of the ecological impact fears if we just gave the mosquito antibodies to kill the virus than killing off the mosquitos which do seem to have a role in a broader ecological context.