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Sterilizing Mosquitoes to Fight Malaria

April 8, 2012 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION Is it possible to breed mosquitoes in the laboratory and then sterilize them and release them into the environment in order to reduce their rate of reproducing. ANSWER That is a very good question, and indeed efforts to genetically modify mosquitoes in order to control the various diseases they transmit are underway in many laboratories across the world. For almost 15 years, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: Aedes, Aedes aegypti, Anohpeles, Cayman Islands, Culex, Evolution, genetically-modified organisms, GM, India, mosquitoes, natural selection, Oxitec, World Health Organisation

GM Mosquito Factory: Can Oxitec Mosquitoes Help Stamp Out Malaria?

April 1, 2012 By Malaria.com Leave a Comment

In plastic and glass containers thousands of mosquitoes are hatching in a British "mosquito factory." On strips of brown paper there are hundreds of thousands of little black mosquito eggs. "Here we practice birth control for mosquitoes," says Hadyn Parry, CEO of Oxitec, a British bio-research company that makes genetically modified mosquito eggs. The eggs produce sterile male mosquitoes, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria News Tagged With: Cayman Islands, Dengue, Genetically Modified, GM Mosquitos, Oxitec

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