They’re Making Mosquitos That Can’t Suck Your Blood

We’re inches closer to solving this problem for good!

Mosquitoes are notorious assholes and deserve every single bad thing that happens to them. Kill a bunch of them with an electric fly-swatter? You won’t catch me crying about it!

While we’re not sure whether we could just totally eliminate the suckers (it could have “disastrous impacts on our ecosystem” or something like that), we’re now one step closer to doing so if we ever get the courage to actually go through with it.

How? Well, only female mosquitoes suck blood. That means that, if we use CRISPR to modify their genes so that they have male mouths, they can’t do it. Here’s what that future might look like, and, my God, is it glorious.