GM INSECTS
February 1st, 2004
BY PHILIP FINE
WHILE genetic modification (GM) seems to have scored a public relations disaster in the area of food, many health advocates are putting support behind the emerging area of GM insects. Three of the most promising ongoing projects are investigating the development of mosquitoes incapable of transmitting malaria, which could be released into the wild, maybe replacing insects that can carry the disease. Since locating the genome of the parasite that causes malaria, US scientists hope to start preliminary field tests on a malaria-resistant mosquito by ...
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