A scientific ‘magic bullet’ is promised to erode malaria. Until then victims need other treatments Could we soon see the end of malaria, one of the world’s deadliest diseases? Genetic engineering may well have the key, for a recent breakthrough in research has enabled scientists to manipulate the mosquito sperm production process with a bias against female mosquitoes. So far, efforts to eliminate malaria by trad­itional methods have been unsuccessful. The key to this latest breakthrough has been focusing on the fact that the female Anopheles mosquito plays a central role in the trans­mission of the malaria parasite. So by introducing male mosquitoes that can produce predominantly male offspring, experts predict that malaria transmission could be eliminated altog