'Gene drive' that spreads infertility could eliminate mosquitoes that transmit malaria in Africa.
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Callaway, E. Mosquitoes engineered to pass down genes that would wipe out their species. Nature (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2015.18974
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