Hope rises as scientists eliminate malaria mosquitoes

Hope rises as scientists eliminate malaria mosquitoes

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A. Adeyemi,  New Telegraph,  2020.

A team of researchers led by Imperial College London have spread a genetic modification that distorted the sex ratio through a population of caged Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes using ‘gene drive’ technology. According to the results of their study published yesterday in ‘Nature Biotechnology,’ the modification they initiated in the laboratory created more male offspring that was able to eliminate populations of malaria mosquitoes in the lab experiments.