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Genetically Engineered Malaria-Resistant Mosquito

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tse-tse dept.

David_Bloom writes "According to this Yahoo! News article, a team of German and American genenetic engineering experts have successfully created a malaria-resistant mosquito. Sounds good, but the scientists are still unsure about how to actually apply this to the world's large mosquito population."

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  1. Don't need quinine anymore by ObviousGuy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just make sure that you're only bitten by these malaria-resistant mosquitoes.

    Wonder if it's possible if they could introduce this new species in the old environment and have it wipe out the old kind. That's what they do with killer bees, they replace the killer queen with a homely queen and all the bees born thereafter and normal and well-adjusted.

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  2. Different approach with the tse-tse fly by T.Hobbes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This reminds me of a diferent approach used to eradicate the tse-tse fly, wherein large quantities of sterile males are introduced into the wild population. This reduces the aggregate number of births; apparently, this almost destorys the tse-tse population over a 3-year period. Slashdot had a story on this awhile ago; google gives more comprehensive links.