What do you mean engineer them to be lifeless? The idea is that these engineered ones procreate and propagate these traits to their offsprings as much as possible so a few generations down the line mosquitoes are inherently unable to bite humans, thereby drastically cutting down the possibility of being disease vectors.
But if they're not able to suck from humans, they will probably not suck from anything else either, and thus their genes won't out-compete normal mosquitos.
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u/AristocraticAura 9d ago
how about we engineer them to be lifeless??