Part 1 of the Malaria Gamechangers series focuses on the efforts of Target Malaria, Imperial College London, and other partners who are working to reduce the population of malaria-carrying mosquitoes through gene drive technology. "The idea of using genetically modified mosquitoes has been around for quite a long time because basically you're using mosquitoes themselves to control malaria," said Dr. Samantha O'Loughlin, Population Genetics Specialist at Imperial College London and Target Malaria. "So the idea is that you would be able to release hopefully a small number of mosquitoes, and that they would spread some kind of genetic modification through the population and that would control the malaria."
