Study Finds CRISPR Could Render Mosquitoes Infertile, Reducing Spread of Diseases
Reading Time: 2 minutesUSING CRISPR-Cas9, researchers at the Army’s Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies and the University of California Santa Barbara were able to target a specific gene tied to fertility in male mosquitoes. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, discerned how a mutation can suppress the fertility of female mosquitoes. The research team mutated a gene in […]