Bill and Melinda Gates are giving $4 million to help scientists engineer a malaria-killing mosquito (via Business Insider)

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is helping Oxitec develop a new genetically-engineered mosquito that could be dispatched in Africa, the Americas and Asia to kill off malaria-infected mosquito populations. Malaria kills more than 440,000 people around the globe every year.

Source: Business Insider