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MIT Plan To Tackle Lyme Disease Would Release Thousands Of Genetically Modified Mice On Nantucket (Jururissac Park alert)
CBS Boston ^
| April 22, 2022
| CBSBoston.com Staff
Posted on 05/05/2022 3:35:49 PM PDT by DoodleBob
NANTUCKET (CBS) — MIT researchers are unveiling their plan to tackle the growing threat of Lyme disease, and it involves releasing thousands of genetically modified mice on Nantucket.
The Boston Globe reports that scientists this month explained to island residents their proposal to release potentially hundreds of thousands of mice that have been engineered to be resistant to the bacteria that causes Lyme.
They say that if Lyme were less prevalent among mice, then fewer ticks that bite the rodents would contract the disease. As a result, there would be fewer cases of Lyme disease in humans bitten by ticks.
A 2019 report found that Nantucket “has a much higher burden of Lyme disease when compared to the rest of the state,” with Lyme accounting for 71% of all infectious disease on the island.
“With so many people suffering from Lyme every single day, which is an awful disease, we need a solution urgently,” MIT Media Lab’s Mice Against Ticks project research director Joanna Buchthal told the newspaper. “This offers a real, if revolutionary, way to tackle the problem.”
The innovative proposal would need extensive scrutiny from regulators before it can be put into place, according to The Globe.
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posted on
05/05/2022 3:35:49 PM PDT
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DoodleBob
To: DoodleBob
Can’t think of anything better than releasing a typical fast breeding disease carrier?
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posted on
05/05/2022 3:42:21 PM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
( )
To: DoodleBob
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posted on
05/05/2022 3:45:27 PM PDT
by
chief lee runamok
(Anti-Socialist Derelict at Large)
To: DoodleBob
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posted on
05/05/2022 3:51:04 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: Sacajaweau
Next they will need coyotes.
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posted on
05/05/2022 3:54:49 PM PDT
by
drSteve78
(Je suis Deplorable STILL)
the mice will eat the mites...
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posted on
05/05/2022 3:54:59 PM PDT
by
proust
(All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
To: DoodleBob
“That Algernon is sure one smart mouse.”
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posted on
05/05/2022 3:55:06 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
To: DoodleBob
Rodents Of Unusual Size sighted soon.
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posted on
05/05/2022 3:55:38 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(It's hard to "Believe all women" when judges say "I don't know what a woman is".)
To: drSteve78
Bats...to eat the mice...
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posted on
05/05/2022 3:56:43 PM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
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To: DoodleBob
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posted on
05/05/2022 3:58:05 PM PDT
by
lightman
(I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
To: DoodleBob
I think I’ve seen this movie... It doesn’t end well.🙄
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posted on
05/05/2022 4:00:19 PM PDT
by
BiteYourSelf
( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
To: BiteYourSelf
I think I’ve seen this movie... It doesn’t end well.🙄 This could be another: "TODAYS SOLUTION IS TOMORROW'S PROBLEM". - Tom
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posted on
05/05/2022 4:10:06 PM PDT
by
Capt. Tom
(.It's COVID 2022 - The Events, not us, are still in charge. )
To: DoodleBob
Rumor has it,a topless beach is being approved on the island also.
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posted on
05/05/2022 4:13:06 PM PDT
by
trotskylvalia
(where nose meets the grindstone)
To: DoodleBob; Conservative4Life
Skinner: Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.
Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?
Skinner: No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?
Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
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posted on
05/05/2022 4:18:01 PM PDT
by
Trillian
To: lightman
The "sophistry" in King Arthur's time didn't result in the End of Man.
Aren't the MIT geniuses also in the Global Warming forecasting businesses?
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posted on
05/05/2022 4:24:48 PM PDT
by
DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
To: DoodleBob
on Monhegan island off the coast of Maine, they removed all the deer from the island. Every single one.
And never let another off island animal on. I would guess.
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posted on
05/05/2022 4:28:37 PM PDT
by
Chickensoup
( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
To: DoodleBob
Chickens love eating ticks....
To: DoodleBob
probably easier to kill the largest vector, deer. Cannot be more than a few hundred on the whole island.
Big venison roast!
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posted on
05/05/2022 4:30:05 PM PDT
by
Chickensoup
( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
To: DoodleBob
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posted on
05/05/2022 4:30:12 PM PDT
by
avenir
(Information overload = Pattern recognition)
To: DoodleBob
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posted on
05/05/2022 4:53:06 PM PDT
by
glorgau
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