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| Science & Technology |
| Malaria Immunity Trigger Found For Multiple Mosquito Species |
| 2009-03-16 |
Article about turning off gene that permits Malaria to live in a Mosquito's gut. This means the skeeter would kill Malaria in it. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #3 It doesn't work. You scare me. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2009-03-16 14:34 |
| #2 The idea, TW, is that parasite resistant mosquitos will displace parasite-transmiting ones. It doesn't work. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-03-16 09:29 |
| #1 What's the benefit to killing malaria pathogens rather than not? If there's no benefit, I don't see why the killer gene would spread preferentially throughout the species. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-03-16 08:48 |