Scientists at the University of California at Irvine and and the Pasteur Institute in Paris
say they've used genetic engineering to create mosquitoes that can't infect people
with malaria.
They used Anopheles stephensi mosquito — a major source of malaria
in India and the Middle East — but say the technique could be used on dozens of
different types of mosquitoes.
Malaria parasites picked up by these mosquitoes are
killed by the the mosquitoes' immune systems.
So the insects can't transmit malaria through their bites. —
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