With global attention focused on the Aedes aegypti mosquito that carries the Zika virus researchers in Brazil are pursuing a way to battle the insect with flower power. The project led by Mario Alberto Cardoso da Silva Neto a professor at Rio de Janeiro Federal University centres on the idea of injecting plants with a bacteria that would alter the mosquito's genome to eliminate its thirst for blood EFE news agency reported. We hope to find the set of genes that equip these insects to suck human blood and then devise a way to prevent the mosquito from advance in
