Scientists create spermless mosquitoes in an effort to curb malaria.
By turning off the gene zpg, essential for normal sperm development, researchers from Imperial College London managed to sterilise the male mosquitoes whilst leaving them still attractive to females & robust enough compete in the vigorous mating that the species take part in. Females mate once in a lifetime & it hoped they can be fooled into mating with a sterile male & lay unfertilized eggs in a bid to reduce the size of mosquito populations.
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Good - horrible things!
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