The deadliest animal on Earth isn’t a lion or a shark. It’s the mosquito.
These tiny, winged parasites are responsible for more deaths throughout human history than all wars combined. Every year, malaria alone kills over half a million people—most of them children. But now, scientists have unveiled a radical twist in the fight against these flying disease factories: don’t kill the mosquitoes. Reprogram them.
In a breakthrough that could change global health forever, researchers have genetically engineered mosquitoes to become immune to malaria—and then passed that immunity down through generations using a gene drive that rewrites the rules of evolution itself.
Welcome to the age of biological counterinsurgency.
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