A genetic tweak could prevent mosquitoes from transmitting malaria
July 26, 2025
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as posted by the channelMosquitoes infect over 250 million people each year with the parasite that causes malaria, but new research in the journal "Nature" suggests those infections could be prevented with a tiny tweak to the mosquito’s genome.
To infect a person, the parasite that causes malaria must travel from the mosquito’s gut to its salivary glands. Researchers disrupted this journey by changing just a few letters of the mosquitoes genome, effectively blocking transmission. The researchers are working on ways to spread this genetic tweak quickly, through a whole population. But they say it’ll be several years before the genetic technology is even tested in the field, much less the real world.
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