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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Buchthal, Joanna, Evans, Sam Weiss, Lunshof, Jeantine, Telford, Sam R., Esvelt, Kevin Michael
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130551