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—Samuel P. Jacobs contributed reporting to this story. —Staff Writer Johannah S. Cornblatt can be reached at jcornbl@fas.harvard.edu.
—Staff writer Samuel P. Jacobs can be reached at jacobs@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Javier C. Hernandez can be reached at jhernand@fas.harvard.edu.
—Johannah S. Cornblatt, Samuel P. Jacobs, Daniel J. T. Schuker, and Anton S. Troianovski contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Alexandra Hiatt can be reached at ahiatt@fas.harvard.edu.
“I think we’re just going to keep going around in circles.” —Staff writer Samuel P. Jacobs can be reached jacobs@fas.harvard.edu.
In reality, the technology isn’t nearly ready to take flight. The mosquito species that Jacobs-Lorena used is not the most harmful of mosquito species and the parasite used does not infect humans. Furthermore, the modified mosquitoes only have an evolutionary advantage over infected mosquitoes, and in...