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mr715

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16. Hopefully no psychic mosquitoes.

Reply to electric_blue68 (Reply #15)

Sat May 16, 2026, 08:33 PM

10 hrs ago

Although this would make a good supervillain origin story.

We're an academic lab, so most of the consequences of what we do involves funding or grades. None of my mosquitoes will get out into nature. Famous last words.

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I successfully used crispr to edit mosquitoes! [View all] mr715 May 8 OP

My bug zapper does that too! erronis May 8 #1

The handheld ones are very satisfying. mr715 May 8 #2

Cool. What kind of gene did you insert? NNadir May 8 #3

Tryptophan hydroxylase. mr715 May 8 #4

That my friend, is very cool. I have to say that tryptophan has always been one of my favorite amino acids, probably... NNadir May 9 #5

It is amazingly well conserved. mr715 May 9 #6

Very cool. By "HELL" you mean histidine-glutamic acid-leucine-leucine or something else? NNadir May 9 #7

Yeah. mr715 May 9 #8

Cool. Do you happen to have the Uniprot accession number? I'd like to look into this one, nonprofessional interest... NNadir May 9 #9

Here is a link to it in uniprot mr715 May 9 #10

Very cool. I like your advisor's wit. Into what species of mosquito did you knock out the gene? NNadir May 9 #11

Yes, it has a fully sequenced genome. mr715 May 9 #12

No idea what's being said, but this is a fascinating discussion. Talitha Thursday #13

My pleasure. mr715 Thursday #14

I understand a bit of this.. good luck! electric_blue68 Yesterday #15

Hopefully no psychic mosquitoes. mr715 10 hrs ago #16

Good luck! electric_blue68 10 hrs ago #17