{"id":86421,"date":"2019-01-06T16:42:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T00:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/scientists-fight-back-against-deadliest-animal-on-earth-using-gene-drives"},"modified":"2019-01-07T16:14:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T00:14:09","slug":"scientists-fight-back-against-deadliest-animal-on-earth-using-gene-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/scientists-fight-back-against-deadliest-animal-on-earth-using-gene-drives","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Fight Back Against Deadliest Animal on Earth Using \u201cGene Drives\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-fight-back-against-deadliest-animal-on-earth-using-gene-drives.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is the deadliest animal on earth? It\u2019s a question that brings to mind fearsome lions, tigers, sharks, and crocodiles. But the answer is an animal that is no more than 1 centimeter long.<\/p>\n<p>A few mosquito species, out of the thousands that populate different environments, are the deadliest animals on earth. <em>Anopheles<\/em> mosquitoes alone, transmit malaria through their bite and annually infect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/malaria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 200 million people<\/a>, and are responsible for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/malaria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">400,000 deaths per year<\/a>, of which 70 percent are children under the age of 5.<\/p>\n<p>Other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/46280-california-mosquitos-officially-carry-zika\">mosquito species also transmit diseases<\/a> \u2014 dengue, West Nile, and Zika \u2014 through their bite.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/52127-using-gene-drives-to-control-wild-mosquito-populations-and-wipe-out-malaria\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/52127-using-gene-drives-to-control-wild-mosquito-populations-and-wipe-out-malaria\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/52127-using-gene-drives-to-control-wild-mosquito-populations-and-wipe-out-malaria\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/52127-using-gene-drives-to-control-wild-mosquito-populations-and-wipe-out-malaria\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the deadliest animal on earth? It\u2019s a question that brings to mind fearsome lions, tigers, sharks, and crocodiles. But the answer is an animal that is no more than 1 centimeter long. A few mosquito species, out of the thousands that populate different environments, are the deadliest animals on earth. Anopheles mosquitoes alone, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86474,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86421\/revisions\/86474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}