Mosquitoes engineered to repel dengue virus

ScienceDaily
Jan 16, 2020, 2:17 pm859 ptsInteresting
An international team of scientists has synthetically engineered mosquitoes that halt the transmission of the dengue virus. Biologists developed a human antibody for dengue suppression in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, the insects that spread dengue. The development marks the first engineered approach in mosquitoes…

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