Scientists Create A Three-Eyed, Wingless Mosquito In Effort To Minimize Spread Of Disease

Geo Beats 2017-11-18

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Scientists recently took a step towards ending mosquitoes’ ability to spread disease by using targeted gene editing to, “stably express the Cas9 enzyme in their germline.”
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