With the aim of curbing mosquito-borne diseases. 🪰 engineering
in Florida and California in order to fight mosquito-borne diseases. Oxitec will now release 2.4 billion gene-altered mosquitos in two periods between 2022 and 2024. mosquitoes that have been genetically tweaked to express the protein tTAV-OX5034. Once these
This process, the scientists hope, will squash transmissions of mosquito-borne diseases and protect vulnerable populations. But not everyone is on board.“Scientists have found genetic material from GE mosquitoes in wild populations at significant levels, which means GE mosquitoes are not sterile. GE mosquitoes could result in far more health and environmental problems than they would solve,”Dana Perls, Food and Technology Program Manager at Friends of the Earth, and a California resident.
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