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Better mosquito: transgenic versions spread less malaria. (This Week).

Publication: Science News
Publication Date: 25-MAY-02
Format: Online - approximately 577 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Better mosquito: transgenic versions spread less malaria. (This Week).(Brief Article)

Article Excerpt
Genetic engineers have built a mosquito that's wonderfully bad at transmitting malaria in lab tests.

Transgenic versions of a mosquito species that bedevils India are only 20 percent as likely to transmit a mouse version of the disease as the untransformed mosquitoes are, says Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. The work raises hope that people might someday deploy transgenic insects to spread antimalaria genes into the wild, Jacobs-Lorena and his colleagues say in the May 23 Nature.

"It's a demonstration of...

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