Gene drive for Malaria control | Andrea Crisanti | TEDxWarwick

Andrea discusses his team's laboratory work that has developed a revolutionary technology to spread genetic modifications from few laboratory mosquitoes to wild populations to eradicate malaria in the near future.

Andrea Crisanti is a professor of molecular parasitology at Imperial College London and editor-in-chief of Pathogens and Global Health. He has carried out pioneering and visionary research that led to the development of molecular technology that can block the ability of mosquitoes to transmit malaria.

[Cy]

Would this work on the HIV and killed the virus once and for all? Andrea Crisanti you are a genius we need more people like you in this world to make it a better place to live for our future generations

[peterdow]

Thank you and bless you Andrea Crisanti

[higreentj]

Male and female mosquitoes feed on nectar, so applying insecticide on their main food source makes sense. We are going to need many different weapons to defeat malaria. Genetic modification (gene drives), bed nets, insecticides, vaccines, drugs and improved housing as it is not so much the mosquito and plasmodium we are fighting but this formidable power of evolution.