Fighting malaria with gene drives: an interview with Dr. Michael Santos

Malaria is one of humanity’s biggest foes, killing an average of 600,000 people per year (mostly African children). That’s more than one death every single minute. Although over the past 25 years this annual death toll has decreased from nearly 900,000, recently progress has stalled.Data source: World Malaria Report 2024I’ve previously written about gene drives and their potential to fight malaria by eliminating the mosquitoes that spread it. In 2023, I also wrote about some of the technical and...