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Gene Drives: The Technology That Could End Malaria — Or a Species

Gene drives could eradicate malaria by spreading sterility through mosquito populations—but scientists fear unintended ecological cascades. The dilemma of playing god.

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We built a technology that could eradicate malaria forever. The side effect? It could accidentally delete an entire species. In 2022, over 249 million people contracted malar

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