To curb the spread of Lyme disease, scientists are targeting an unexpected culprit: wild mice. Mice are the main carriers of the Lyme bacteria. 🐁 Mice pass the disease along to ticks, which can then infect humans. By gene-editing mice to be immune, ticks won’t get infected. And if you’re wondering, what about the deer? They don’t get infected with the illness, but they help spread the disease. Ticks will embed on deer to feed, then reproduce. A single female tick can lay as many as 2,000 eggs. #60minutes #lymedisease #ticks #geneticengineering