The Gamble: Can Genetically Modified Mosquitoes End Disease?
On a muggy evening in July on the island of Príncipe, part of a volcanic archipelago 200 miles off the West African mainland, 11,000 mosquitoes dusted in fluorescent green powder flew together into the heavy equatorial air, tiny volunteers in the service of science. Over the next 10 nights, another group of volunteers, human ones,…