Gates backs gene editing to fight malaria

By Kate Kelland
Updated April 19 2018 - 4:58pm, first published 4:51pm
Bill Gates is backing gene editing to alter mosquito DNA in a bid to combat malaria.
Bill Gates is backing gene editing to alter mosquito DNA in a bid to combat malaria.

Gene-editing technologies that alter mosquitoes' DNA could prove critical in the fight against malaria, Bill Gates says, and ethical concerns should not block progress in such gene-modifying research.

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