Coming to a Wilderness Near You: Frankenbugs

I'm sure there's nothing to worry about here.

Transgenic mosquitoes set to beat malaria

Work published in the Public Library of Science, suggests that the spread of malaria can be controlled with the introduction of transgenic mosquitoes into native mosquito population.

The transgenic mosquitoes would contain a gene that codes for a protein thought to block the insects ability to pass malaria into a host

John Marshall and Charles Taylor, both from the University of California, Los Angeles, think the introduction of these transgenic mosquitoes into the wild population would introduce the gene for the blocking protein into the local gene pool, and hopefully a strain of mosquitoes would then develop that are unable to transmit malaria between hosts. This may not eradicate malaria, but would certainly slow down the transmission between humans.

"Hopefully"?

Translation: We have no clue whether this will work at all, or work as it is intended. But hey, back off: we're scientists.