#safely eradicate
#parasites via
#gene-drive
#medical : lice, scabies :
#gene_drive #lice (body, pubic, head) &
#mites ('
#scabies ') and
#bedbugs have no
#natural_predators , it would be fantastically amazing to have a
#genedrive to
#eradicate the sometimes-lethal insects. Last year, it was widely reported, one on the east coast had died -- was literally eaten alive by a parasite colony in jail. No treatment had been granted, despite repeat complaints. More recently, prisoners in
#ice jails, families & children in
#Gaza , and held in
#Israeli #prisons have reported being deliberately
#infected with scabies and lice, suffering horribly. Also
#RX #treatment_resistance - much like
#antibiotic_resistance w
#superbugs - to conventional RX (
#antiparasitics ) has skyrocketed: in late 1990s, efficacy was ~97% in USA. But a decade ago by 2016, dropped to ~35%. Today, the identical treatment is prescribed as 30 years ago. Finally, said
#drugs =
#neurotoxin #nerve_damage . A
#genedrive could fix all of that. What is it? A gene edit which makes 100% of all offspring male: no females = inability to
#reproduce and it perpetuates every generation so an edited male reproduces w nonedited female and all eggs become male, also carrying the gene-edit.... And eventually the colony depopulates entirely. A very fast & effective cure ..... versus.... a months-long hopeless battle dousing one's body in vinegar, daily, plus numerous other toxins & nerve damage.
#genomics #genetics 
Stephen Gutknecht
Nonilex
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Scientific Frontline
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NSW.Biodiversity