Homework

Weekly homework submissions:

• Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices

  Week 1 homeowrk Snail population suppression for schistosomiasis The intervention Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by parasitic worms which infected ~220 million people in 2025. Schistosomes use aquatic snails as an intermediate host to grow from the miricidia stage to the circaria stage, which is the stage at which they are able to penetrate human skin and infect the blood. By reducing the population of intermediate host species through a gene drive, the life cycle of the schistosomes can be interrupted.