1 entry tagged gene drive. All writing.
SEPTEMBER 17, 2026 Six Dollars a Net, Forever, Versus One Fixed Bet A bed net costs about $6 and lasts three years, which makes malaria prevention a subscription with 600 million subscribers and no end date. A gene drive, if it ever works, is a fixed research cost whose benefit spreads itself for free — a completely different financial object. Global malaria funding in 2024 was $3.9 billion against a $9.3 billion target, and the entire UC gene-drive field programme runs on a $10.2 million grant. Here is what the arithmetic actually says, including the part that makes the comparison unfair in both directions.