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African scientist may eliminate malaria by editing mosquito DNA

Abdoulaye Diabate faced a life-threatening malaria attack when he was just five years old. Diabetes narrowly escaped the mosquito-borne disease, but the three- and four-year-old cousins ​​were not so lucky. Diabate, who now heads medical entomology and parasitology at the Burkina Faso Health Sciences Research Institute, is developing an innovative technique that could potentially eradicate… Read More »

African scientist may eliminate malaria by editing mosquito DNA

Abdoulaye Diabate faced a life-threatening malaria attack when he was just five years old. Diabetes narrowly escaped the mosquito-borne disease, but the three- and four-year-old cousins ​​were not so lucky. Diabate, who now heads medical entomology and parasitology at the Burkina Faso Health Sciences Research Institute, is developing an innovative technique that could potentially eradicate… Read More »