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...

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Main Authors: Buchthal, Joanna (Author), Evans, Sam Weiss (Author), Lunshof, Jeantine (Author), Telford, Sam R. (Author), Esvelt, Kevin Michael (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society, 2021-05-03T22:25:09Z.
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