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The most ferocious predator for us humans is actually quite small: the mosquito. <\/p>\n

They are hungry for blood, spreading diseases like malaria, yellow fever and dengue \u2013 and picking up new ones all the time. <\/p>\n

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But what if we could wipe out the mosquito? <\/p>\n

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? <\/p>\n

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Here to discuss that is Ben Bradford, the host of a new podcast distributed by the NPR Network: <\/p>\n

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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 \u2013 and picking up new ones all the time. But what if we could wipe out the mosquito? Gene-editing technology could <\/em>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? Here to discuss that is Ben Bradford<\/a>, the host of a new podcast distributed by the NPR Network: Are We Doomed?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Interested in more science? Email us your question at <\/em>shortwave@npr.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at <\/em>plus.npr.org\/shortwave<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-short-wave"],"yoast_head":"\nShould we reengineer the world's deadliest animal? - Best USA Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/?p=730\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Should we reengineer the world's deadliest animal? - Best USA Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The most ferocious predator for us humans is actually quite small: the mosquito. 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