Joanna Buchthal

Postdoctoral Associate

7 Investigates: Genetically modified mice could fight Lyme disease in Massachusetts

Kevin Esvelt spoke with 7News Boston about the “Mice Against Ticks” project and new approaches to preventing Lyme disease.

MIT Media Lab’s Kevin Esvelt leads a community-driven effort on Nantucket to engineer Lyme-immune mice and stop the disease at its source

We're so proud of everything you've accomplished here, and can't wait to see what you do next!

If fewer mice carry Lyme, the scientists say, fewer ticks that bite them would become infected.

How does one scientist deal with the potential ramifications of his own creation?

In a paper published in PNAS, researchers at MIT and Harvard University describe a self-limiting gene drive system.

Cummings School and MIT are working with Massachusetts citizens to deploy immune mice as frontline soldiers in the war against the disease.