SOPHIE ARIE: ‘Target Malaria, the name of the Imperial College-led research consortium, is just one of many projects exploring ways to engineer mosquitoes so that they stop spreading disease. But unlike so-called ‘self-limiting’ genetic modification of mosquitoes – which, for example, renders them infertile or produce infertile offspring – gene drive works by unleashing a … Continue reading Playing with God: Are GM mosquitoes the only way to wipe out malaria?