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Mosquito modification programme aiming to eliminate malaria receives US$15mHayley Dunning, Imperial College London, 2023.![]() Half of the world’s population is at risk of contracting malaria, a disease caused by parasites that are transmitted from one person to another through bites from Anopheles mosquitoes. In 2021 alone, there were over 247 million cases and 619,000 deaths from malaria, mostly ... Keywords: Biomedical Social Sciences, Evolution and Creation, gene drive ethics, gene drive opinion, gene drive synthetic, Genetic engineering, insects, Medical Ethics, Moral Status, Research, Scientific, Social Issues, Social Sciences - Other Topics |
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Driven to extinction? The ethics of eradicating mosquitoes with gene-drive technologiesPugh, J, Journal of Medical Ethics, 42:578-581. 2016.![]() Mosquito-borne diseases represent a significant global disease burden, and recent outbreaks of such diseases have led to calls to reduce mosquito populations. Furthermore, advances in gene-drive' technology have raised the prospect of eradicating certain species of mosquito via ... Keywords: Biomedical Social Sciences, Evolution and Creation, gene drive ethics, gene drive opinion, gene drive synthetic, Genetic engineering, insects, Medical Ethics, Moral Status, Research, Scientific, Social Issues, Social Sciences - Other Topics |

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