Scientists Engineer Mosquito Immune System To Block Malaria

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute gave the first ever  successful demonstration on how Anopheles mosquito's innate immune system could be genetically engineered so that the spread (infact transmission through mosquito) of Malaria would no longer be.

"The immune system of the Anopheles mosquito is capable of killing a large proportion but not all of the disease-causing parasites that are ingested when the mosquito feeds on an infected human," said George Dimopoulos, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor in the W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "We've genetically engineered this immune system to create mosquitoes that are better at blocking the transmission of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. "

Reference: Medical News Today