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Faculties and Departments => Allied Health Science => Topic started by: kaushik.swe on July 18, 2014, 02:31:39 PM
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Papers published Thursday in the journals Science and eLife, scientists and policy experts propose fighting malaria in a new way: by genetically engineering the mosquitoes themselves.
A new technology for editing DNA may allow scientists to render the insects resistant to the malaria parasite, the authors contend. Or it might be possible to engineer infertility into mosquito DNA, driving their populations into oblivion.
[Source: The New York Times - Friday, July 18, 2014]