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Tinkering with genes to fight insect-borne disease
Source: The Lancet
16 April 2004 | EN
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Bacteria living in insect guts have also been recruited, reports Leslie Harris O'Hanlon. Engineering these bacteria to produce a protein lethal to the parasite that causes Chagas' disease can clear insects of parasites.
Despite the potentially dramatic impact of genetic engineering on control of insect-borne diseases, concerns remain. There is a widespread lack of regulations concerning release of engineered insects and impacts of such releases on other insects and the wider environment have yet to be studied in detail.
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