For the first time, a mosquito strain engineered to resist malaria has beaten regular mosquitoes in a lab test of overall fitness.
GREEN GENES. The green eyes of this Anopheles stephensi mosquito mark it as a carrier of a gene that produces a small molecule that renders its gut unfriendly to rodent-malaria parasites.
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