Researchers engineer malaria-proof mosquitoes
Friday, July 16, 2010 - 23:14
in Biology & Nature
The parasite that causes the disease is unable to infect the genetically modified insects, a possible step toward eradicating the infection that kills nearly 1 million people a year. Malaria kills nearly 1 million people a year, but it has a weakness — to infect humans, it needs mosquitoes. In a potential step toward eradicating the disease, researchers report that they have developed...