The most ferocious predator for us humans is actually quite small: the mosquito.
They are hungry for blood, spreading diseases like malaria, yellow fever and dengue – and picking up new ones all the time.
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But what if we could wipe out the mosquito?
Gene-editing technology do it, potentially saving millions of lives. But it comes with serious potential for risk. Which begs the question: Should we get to decide when humanity rewrites nature?
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Here to discuss that is Ben Bradford, the host of a new podcast distributed by the NPR Network: