Scientists genetically engineer a lethal mosquito STD to combat malaria

> Scientists genetically engineer a lethal mosquito STD to combat malaria

Nothing could possibly go wrong.

We were going to release something like this in California but environmental groups killed it.

I've been having some success with "mosquito dunks" in buckets here in Los Angeles but unless the neighbors do it to we still get bit

"Recently, mosquitoes and mosquito-borne parasites have developed resistance to chemical treatments and antimalarial drugs."

This seems similar to phage therapy, in that the treatment continues to evolve along with the target.

The treatment in the above article is a fungus. "Despite being lethal to mosquitoes, the transgenic Metarhizium fungus is harmless in humans."

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2104592118

I worked in Raymond St. Leger’s lab for a short time in college. I can pass along any questions you have, and will send him the link to this discussion.

> “It’s essentially an arms race between the mosquitoes and us," says St. Leger. "Just as they keep adapting to what we create, we have to continuously develop new and creative ways to fight them,”

I just had a vision of Jeff Goldblum muttering something...

Next do ticks.

"when wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death"

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