Mice Against Ticks: an experimental community-guided effort to prevent tick-borne disease by altering the shared environment
Mice Against Ticks is a community-guided ecological engineering project that aims to prevent tick-borne disease by using CRISPR-based genome editing to heritably immunize the white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) responsible for infecting many ticks in eastern North America. Introducing antibody-e...
Main Authors: | Buchthal, Joanna (Author), Evans, Sam Weiss (Author), Lunshof, Jeantine (Author), Telford, Sam R. (Author), Esvelt, Kevin Michael (Author) |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory (Contributor) |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The Royal Society,
2021-05-03T22:25:09Z.
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Online Access: | Get fulltext |
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