Creating genetically engineered mosquitoes could save millions of lives -- or go horribly wrong

The mosquito is, by most definitions, the deadliest creature on the planet. The small insect causes an outsize amount of pain and suffering by spreading debilitating and potentially deadly illnesses like malaria, which infects around 200 million and kills about 600,000 people a year, and the incredibly painful dengue fever, which infects about 400 million and kills 22,000 a year. It's no surprise that people want to come up with a way to solve the mosquito problem, and now there's a report that...