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[niniendowarrior]

http://www.bbc.com/n...gazine-35408835

 

 

 

In Britain, scientists at Oxford University and the biotech firm Oxitec have genetically modified (GM) the males of Aedes aegypti - a mosquito species that carries both the Zika virus and dengue fever. These GM males carry a gene that stops their offspring developing properly. This second generation of mosquitoes then die before they can reproduce and become carriers of disease themselves.

About three million of these modified mosquitoes were released on to a site on the Cayman Islands between 2009 and 2010. Oxitec reported a 96% reduction in mosquitoes compared with nearby areas. A trial currently taking place on a site in Brazil has reduced the numbers by 92%.

 

 

 

Whoa!  That's heavy duty specicide!

 

Spoiler

[animedreamer]

Next step... people. The more life mimics fiction......

[Treacherous J Slither]

Good. **** mosquitoes.

Also, the krogan deserved what they got.

[aoibhealfae]

Not really. Genophage is so much more sophisticated. I have friends and lecturers who was researching this to combat tropical dengue and doing field studies. It wasn't new but success rate varies.

[ADelusiveMan]

[T-Rex321]

There is a chrome extension that is going off of this Zika Genophage connection.

It changes the word Zika into the word Genophage.

https://chrome.googl...mhhhpfkabpnmdjl

 

 

[ZipZap2000]

Disease carrying insects that breed out of control could be useful against your enemies one day.

 

You humans are near sighted. 

[KaiserShep]

If there was a button I could press that would reduce the population of mosquitos to zero, I'd probably press it several times just to be certain. Oh and roaches too. 

[aoibhealfae]

If you actually look at the data of viral replication and mutation frequencies of flu viruses, it should scare you more than this.

[iM3GTR]

If there was a button I could press that would reduce the population of mosquitos to zero, I'd probably press it several times just to be certain. Oh and roaches too.

I would do that to flies if I could. So annoying. But then it might screw up the ecosystem.

[Treacherous J Slither]

I would do that to flies if I could. So annoying. But then it might screw up the ecosystem.

Worth it.