title: Genetic Control Of Malaria Mosquitoes.
abstract: Experiments demonstrating the feasibility of genetically modifying mosquito vectors to impair their ability to transmit the malaria parasite have been known for well over a decade. However, means to spread resistance or population control genes into wild mosquito populations remains an unsolved challenge. Two recent reports give hope that CRISPR technology may allow such challenge to be overcome.
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
authors.forename: Kyle Jarrod
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: McLean
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. Electronic address: mlorena@jhsph.edu.
authors.forename: Marcelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jacobs-Lorena
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D030801:Animals, Genetically Modified / Q000235:genetics; D009033:Culicidae / Q000235:genetics* / Q000469:parasitology; D005260:Female; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000235:genetics* / Q000469:parasitology; D008288:Malaria / Q000469:parasitology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008297:Male
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