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Gene drive modified mosquitoes offer new tool for malaria elimination efforts | Imperial News | Imperial College London

Genetic technology co-developed at Imperial could help to eliminate malaria by making mosquitos resistant to the parasite that spreads the disease. Transmission Zero, a research team from Imperial College London in partnership with the Ifakara Health Institute and the National Institute of Medical Research in Tanzania, has developed genetic technology which renders a mosquito unable to transmit the malaria parasite and has a gene drive that ensures that future generations are also resistant to t...

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