Scientists have engineered mosquitoes that resist malaria parasites with the assistance of anti-parasite molecules.
Anopheles
mosquitoes that have been genetically engineered with the assistance of
different anti-malaria molecules can be distinguished from other mosquitoes by
the palps, which are as long as the proboscis, and by the presence of discrete
blocks of black and white scales on the wings.
Anopheles mosquitoes which Perform at diverse stages of the malaria life cycle are powerfully impervious to the parasites that cause malaria according to a study by scientists at John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Plasmodium
parasites are the reason of malaria which affects humans and other mammals but
can also infect certain mosquito species as well. The disease of malaria fever continues
to be one of the world’s top public health threats, accounting for 200 million
patients and 400,000 deaths every year mostly in children in South Africa.
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