Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Science 20 October 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5491, pp. 440 - 441
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5491.440
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

News Focus

MOSQUITO ENGINEERING:
Building a Disease-Fighting Mosquito

Martin Enserink

With resistance against insecticides on the rise and a U.N.-backed push to phase out DDT, several labs have embarked on the most ambitious and futuristic of all approaches to combat malaria: They hope to replace billions and billions of mosquitoes in the world's endemic areas with new strains, created in the lab, that would be "refractory," or unable to transmit Plasmodium, the parasite that causes the disease. The idea is not that farfetched, these researchers claim.

Read the Full Text


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Wolbachia transinfection in Aedes aegypti: A potential gene driver of dengue vectors.
T. Ruang-areerate and P. Kittayapong (2006)
PNAS 103, 12534-12539
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Tertian and Quartan Fevers: Temporal Regulation in Malarial Infection.
C. R. S. Garcia, R. P. Markus, and L. Madeira (2001)
J Biol Rhythms 16, 436-443
   Abstract »    PDF »
Eight novel families of miniature inverted repeat transposable elements in the African malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae.
Z. Tu (2001)
PNAS
   Abstract »    Full Text »
Eight novel families of miniature inverted repeat transposable elements in the African malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae.
Z. Tu (2001)
PNAS 98, 1699-1704
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »


To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)