Mosquitoes bred with suicide genes to combat disease:
With the World Cup just six weeks away, Brazilian authorities have approved the widespread, commercial release of a strain of mosquito that has been genetically reprogrammed to wipe out its own species. These Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are a major carrier of dengue fever, and bed nets are useless against them because they bite during the day. While some have experimented with using lasers and other techniques to wipe out the disease-carrying bugs, Brazil's preferred solution begins in the lab: Male mosquitoes are given a deliberately flawed gene and then released into the wild so that they can reproduce, at which point the implanted gene rears its head and causes any offspring to die before they reach sexual maturity.
Brazilians welcome genetically-modified mosquito to help fight dengue fever
(Score: 1) by mrpg on Friday November 18 2016, @07:30PM
I approve.
(Score: 2) by cmn32480 on Friday November 18 2016, @07:42PM
Watch the title case on the article, first letter capped except for stuff like a, an, the, etc.
(Score: 1) by mrpg on Friday November 18 2016, @07:49PM
Good catch.