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Hadyn Parry: Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease

Filmed Nov 2012 • Posted Jan 2013TEDSalon London Fall 2012
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In a single year, there are 200-300 million cases of malaria and 50-100 million cases of dengue fever worldwide. So: Why haven’t we found a way to effectively kill mosquitoes yet? Hadyn Parry presents a fascinating solution: genetically engineering male mosquitoes to make them sterile, and releasing the insects into the wild, to cut down on disease-carrying species.

Biotech entrepreneur Hadyn Parry leads a science start-up that develops GM insects to fight dengue fever. Full bio »

Translated into Chinese, Simplified by Yale Yin
Reviewed by Shan Zhao
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