News snippets September 2010

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Global news Malaria-proof mosquito a world first The creation of genetically-altered mosquitoes that cannot infect humans with malaria is providing new hope to countries where millions of people die from the disease each year. University of Arizona (UA) ento mologists, who created the mosquitoes which are completely immune to the malaria parasite, Plasmodium, aim to one day replace wild mosquitoes with lab-bred populations unable to act as vectors. “If you want to effectively stop the spreading of the malaria parasite, you need mosquitoes that are 100% resistant to it.

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