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Science 30 March 2007:
Vol. 315. no. 5820, pp. 1777 - 1778
DOI: 10.1126/science.315.5820.1777a
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GENETICS:
Selfish Genes Could Help Disease-Free Mosquitoes Spread

Martin Enserink

In a paper published online by Science this week (www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1138595), molecular biologists introduced a set of "selfish" genes in Drosophila fruit flies. They say the same technique could be used to enable malaria-resistant mosquitoes to "replace," or outcompete, the natural population. (Read more.)

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