Mosquitoes can spread a deadly parasite that causes malaria, experts are using CRISPR to change the mosquito’s genome to stop this spread.

A team of researchers at University of California, San Diego, University of São Paulo, Johns Hopkins University, and University of California, Berkeley, have discovered a potential new tool in the fight against malaria. The results were described in a paper ‘Driving a protective allele of the mosquito FREP1 gene to combat malaria‘ published in the journal Nature.

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One Small Genetic Tweak May Stop Mosquitoes from Spreading Malaria