Researchers master gene editing technique in mosquito that transmits deadly diseases

Thursday, March 26, 2015 - 13:01 in Health & Medicine

Rockefeller University researchers have successfully harnessed a technique, CRISPR-Cas9 editing, to use in an important and understudied species: the mosquito, Aedes aegypti, which infects hundreds of millions of people annually with the deadly diseases chikungunya, yellow fever, and dengue fever More »

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