September 23, 2025
60 Minutesยท2025-09-23 17:01
in our area is not hurricanes or tornadoes or earthquakes. It is Lyme disease. It is the one plague that might be severe enough that communities might want to engineer a wild organism in order to get rid of it or at least reduce the level of lime.Last October, deep in the island's brush, we found MIT associate professor Kevin Esfelt, a pioneer in genetic engineering, waving a white flag in search of ticks. So, we just grab it. These tiny vectors of Lyme disease were not hard to find.And you just pop it in. ...