Trump Orders Mosquitoes and Rats Out of the District of Columbia
Time to deploy gene drives to eliminate these disease-carrying pests?
Time to deploy gene drives to eliminate these disease-carrying pests?
An earlier project already led to a 95 percent drop in biting females of one disease-carrying species in Fresno.
What if mosquitoes could deliver not just the disease but the protection to an infection that kills hundreds of thousands of people annually?
Malaria is making a comeback in the United States. Mosquitos might be part of the solution.
Global warming is an issue. But there are other pressing problems that deserve the world's attention.
This is great progress, but there is even more in the vaccine pipeline.
"If my kids lived in Africa, I'd say, 'Go for it as quickly as possible,'" says researcher.
The good news is that anti-technology activists are unlikely to succeed in imposing a global moratorium.
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