Tuesday, June 10, 2025

“It’s essentially an arms race between the mosquitoes and us. Just as they keep adapting to what we create, we have to continuously develop new and creative ways to fight them.”
– Raymond St. Leger, University of Maryland entomologist –

Nature’s been playing defense against malaria for millennia, but researchers just deployed the ultimate Trojan horse – a sexually-transmitted fungal infection that hijacks mosquito mating behavior to achieve 90% mortality rates in field tests. With nearly 600,000 annual deaths and rising pesticide resistance, this biotechnology breakthrough proves that sometimes the best offense is turning your enemy’s biology against itself. Check out How advanced biological engineering is outmaneuvering evolution in the ongoing war against disease.

Stay safe. Stay healthy. Be strong. Lead well.

Chad