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Impactful malaria science, and the trailblazers leading the fight. A podcast from the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute.

Mar 18, 2022

Abdoulaye Diabate is leading the research on genetic technologies for malaria control in Burkina Faso, the only country in Africa to be working with genetically modified mosquitoes. He hopes to bring gene drive, an innovative genetic tool which could help reduce malaria transmission, to Africa in the future.


Mar 11, 2022

Target Malaria report on the first-ever release of genetically modified mosquitoes in Africa. Transcript

Genetically engineered so they can’t transmit malaria, gene drive mosquitoes could be game-changing. But we first need to understand how genetically modified mosquitoes reared in a lab behave in the wild. And in...