Here are transgenic Anopheles stephensi (created by traditional embryo injection) expressing mCherry driven off ie1
The Demon Strain (too bad we lost it during COVID, it was something!)
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Different promoter.
Although we've used ie1 before, we called the resultant transgenics "Demon larvae" - it was damn bright
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Boom
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👀
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Depends on how the proposal fares at Study Section...
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It's coming...
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