African scientist could eradicate malaria by editing mosquito DNA
Abdoulaye Diabate suffered a life-threatening bout of malaria when he was just five years old. Diabate barely survived the mosquito-borne disease, but cousins aged three and four were not so lucky. Diabate, who is now head of medical entomology and parasitology at the Burkina Faso Research Institute in Health Sciences, is developing an innovative technique … Read more