India, Jan. 20 -- For the first time mosquitoes have been engineered to fight all 4 known types of dengue
A team of researchers have engineered mosquitoes in a way that they are unable to spread the dengue virus. This team, led by the University of California, San Diego recently published its findings in the journal PLOS Pathogen .
The team achieved this identifying a broad spectrum human antibody to fight the disease. This antibody was designed to be synthetically expressed into the carrier of the disease, which is the female Aedes aegypti mosquito. The antibody is activated when the mosquito sucks in blood and hinders the replication of the disease thereby stopping the mosquito from spreading it.
"The antibody is able to hinder the rep...