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Fighting malaria with fungi: biologists engineer a fungus to be deadlier to mosquitoes

  • Written by Antonis Rokas, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Biological Sciences and Professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University
Spraying insecticide to kill mosquitoes: Mosquitoes are vectors of many devastating diseases such as malaria.Sukjanya/Shutterstock.com

Bed nets. Insecticides. Sterile and genetically modified insects. Now scientists are adding a genetically engineered toxic fungus to the arsenal of weapons to wipe out mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.

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