image: Driving mosquito refractoriness to Plasmodium falciparum with engineered symbiotic bacteria. A symbiotic bacterium AS1, which spreads rapidly throughout mosquito populations, was genetically engineered for secretion of anti-Plasmodium compounds that arrest development of the parasite in the mosquito gut. Mosquitoes that carry the engineered bacteria are resistant to parasite infection. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 29 September 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Wang at Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, China, and colleagues was titled, " Driving mosquito refractoriness to Plasmodium falciparum with engineered symbiotic bacteria." view more
Credit: Sibao Wang, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, CAS