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Hello, welcome to this week's naked scientist,

the program where we bring you the latest breakthroughs

in science, technology and

medicine. I'm Chris Smith and in the program this week the genetically

engineered mosquitoes released to fight malaria in Africa, how fake news

skews public opinion and who is behind it, and I get to find

out what it's like to own an extra thumb.

From Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education, this is the Naked Scientists.

First this week, genetically engineered mosquitoes are taking to the air in an experiment to

attempt to curtail malaria in Djibouti. The tiny African nation had all but eliminated malaria just over a decade ago,

but rising population and urbanization has seen disease cases skyrocketing again, making it an ideal venue to test the technology, which uses a genetic

trick to kill off selectively the female mosquitoes.

This leaves behind just the males, which don't bite humans of course,

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