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Mosquito Info Buzzing at SCJ
2016-03-28 16:05:00| Happi Breaking News
Company curates educational resources online for consumers.
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FDA says engineered anti-Zika mosquito environmentally safe
2016-03-13 03:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.S. health regulators said a genetically engineered mosquito being used in the fight against Zika will not have a significant impact on the environment, possibly paving the way for the technique to be used in the country. The self-limiting strain of the Aedes aegypti mosquito was developed by Oxitec, the U.K.-subsidiary of U.S. synthetic biology company Intrexon Corp. The male mosquitoes are modified so their offspring will die before reaching adulthood and being able to reproduce. Preliminary...
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Things to know about GMO mosquito test proposed in Florida
2016-03-11 11:59:14| Biotech - Topix.net
The spread of the Zika virus in Latin America is giving a boost to a British biotech firm's proposal to deploy a genetically modified mosquito to try to stop transmission of the disease. Oxitec has genetically modified the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which also transmits dengue and chikungunya, so the males produce offspring that do not live.
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Things to know about GMO mosquito test proposed in Florida
2016-03-11 11:59:13| Biotech - Topix.net
In this Jan. 18, 2016 file photo, a researcher holds a container with female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes at the Biomedical Sciences Institute in the Sao Paulo's University in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The spread of the Zika virus in Latin America is giving a boost to a British biotech firm's proposal to try reducing the threat by deploying a genetically modified version of the mosquito that transmits the disease.
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Insecticide-treated nets may still prevent malaria despite mosquito resistance
2016-02-27 03:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Insecticide-treated nets may still help prevent malaria despite mosquitoes developing resistance, according to a new study published in Parasites & Vectors. These nets have contributed to the prevention of millions of deaths due to malaria, but in recent years, there has been growing concern that mosquitoes are becoming resistant to the pyrethroid insecticides used on the nets, making them less effective. However, the impact of this resistance on malaria as a public health problem has been harder...
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