GM MOSQUITO COULD SOLVE MALARIA PROBLEM
October 1st, 2010
BY EMMA JACKSON
THE DAYS of malaria could finally be numbered, thanks to scientists who have genetically modified a mosquito making it less able to host the parasite causing the disease.
More than one million people die from malaria globally each year, with efforts to fight the disease with pesticides and medicines progressively weakened because mosquitoes evolve and become immune to various chemicals.
But a new study published in the Public Library of Science Journal of Pathogens has suggested using the power of evolution - or at least giving it an artificial ...
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