In an effort to curb Lyme disease, scientists hope to release thousands of genetically altered mice on Nantucket - The Boston Globe

A team of local scientists wants to use recent advances in powerful gene-editing technology to release hundreds of thousands of mice they’ve genetically altered to be resistant to Lyme disease, in hopes of interrupting its spread on Nantucket and on Martha’s …

The engineered rodents would look exactly like the native white-footed mice. But each of their cells would carry genetic code, specially tailored in an MIT lab, for resistance to the bacteria that ca… [+9039 chars]

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