People frown upon stuff that are genetically modified because they are deemed unnatural. But would you mind having genetically modified mosquitoes around if in the end they would be able to eradicate malaria?

This is the impending question underlying the fact that GM mosquitoes have been produced to be resistant to the malaria parasite, which has been known to kill three million people annually. The initial impression is that GM mosquitoes are naturally weaker than the hardcore wild ones. But all that's about to be debunked now as the National Academy of Sciences has garnered sufficient proof to show that the GM mosquito can actually go head to head, and even outrun them natural bloodsuckers.

The team, with Dr. Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena of the John Hopkins University in Baltimore, tweaked with the insects so that they will be able to create a protein which will block the malaria parasite from getting into the mosquito's system after drinking blood from its victim. With this, they will no longer be carriers of malaria.

Now the only thing left for them to do is to breed some more of them genetically modified mosquitoes. Hmmm... I wonder if they can also make one that doesn't bite.