Morgan Q. Goulding

Morgan Q. Goulding

Oct 15, 2020

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New Snail Project Launched

...Something completely different from this project, in which we are engineering the easiest routes to snail destruction:: in our NEW project we are reverse-engineering the route to snail creation! The snails make it look easy (and no wonder, as they have been doing it for half a billion years), but it's actually quite complicated for a cell to become an animal. We're just beginning to figure it out. We're asking for small donations while preparing to ask NSF for a large donation. Here: https://experiment.com/projects/single-cell-analysis-of-whole-body-pattern-formation-mama-had-a-baby-why-did-its-head-pop-off

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About This Project

Schistosomiasis is a disease transmitted by snails, responsible for chronic illness of many millions of the world's poorest people, mainly in Africa. This project tests the efficacy of RNAi, a targeted genetic weapon, to kill the snails and thus curtail the spread of the disease. RNAi acts only on specific gene sequences, making it environmentally benign and preventing the evolution of resistance in snail populations. Importantly, this snail-killing material would be very cheap to produce.

Blast off!

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