Wednesday 11 January 2012
Mosquito immune system engineered to block malaria
Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that the Anopheles mosquito?s innate immune system could be genetically engineered to block the transmission of the malaria-causing parasite to humans. In addition, they showed that the genetic modification had little impact on the mosquito?s fitness under laboratory conditions.
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