Phys.org
Now, researchers at the University of California San Diego, Johns Hopkins University, UC Berkeley and the University of São Paulo have developed a new method that genetically blocks mosquitoes from transmitting malaria. Their work appears in Nature.
Biologists Zhiqian Li and Ethan Bier from UC San Diego, along with Yuemei Dong and George Dimopoulos from Johns Hopkins University, created a CRISPR-based gene-editing system that changes a single molecule within mosquitoes, a minuscule but effective change that stops the malaria-parasite transmission process. Genetically altered mosquitoes are still able to bite those with malaria and acquire parasites from their blood, but the parasites can no longer be spread to other people. More
Why not just kill the damned mosquitoes?
Whose food chain are they critical to?
How ironical. They’re running spots on the radio warning us In Norcal about a new strain of mosquitos that’s leaving big welts when they bite. My 3 year old granddaughter had a welt about 1/2 dia. on her arm from one.
Are drug manufactures selling a jab to help with side effects?? Asking for my dead brothers kids.
And Bill Gates wants to weaponize them for vaccine delivery.
Got eaten by them today doing a delivery. They were tiny little buggers and left me itching like crazy.
Where I’m from the damn things don’t bite, they carry you away. A lot of people use mosquito repellant but around here we prefer a 12 gauge semi-auto with unrestricted magazine.
Now they carry AIDS & COOF-19.
I’m not buying it. I do however have a bridge to sell….
Do NOT ever release Franken creatures into the environment.
Many questions to answer such as durability of the change over ensuing generations, and of course the unknowable of what this genetic branch will lead to.
I’d support a gene editing system that makes researches no longer desire to research. Science has had too many oh-shit epiphanies for my tastes.
Remember that MED FLY problem back in the 1980s? They would trap and sterile them and release back to their territory, next thing you know it’s done!
what about the hungry birds and bats?
“Biologists Zhiqian Li”
A Chinese guy doing biological experiments?
What could possibly go wrong?
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Y4pmjZwAAAAJ&hl=en
Uncle Al, bats eat a lot of mosquitoes. Some birds eat skeeters too.
Can they do Gen Z and leftism next?
Sheesh! All this fuss, work, and expense.
Just irradiate the damn things to sterilize them, turn them loose, let them “breed” into extinction.
DDT worked great until Democrats created junk science and medical fear porn to outlaw it.
Next up is teaching them targets…
So mosquitos have been……
genetically engineered to not……
deliver malaria…….but to deliver what…..????
Covid-25-35……????