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‘Clever Approach’: Scientists Create GM-Free Organisms Using Genetic Engineering – The Wire Science
At the heart of the technique is a genetic pathway called a lethal circuit.
An Aedes aegypti mosquito in Tanzania, 2009. Credit: Muhammad Mahdi Karim/Wikimedia Commons, GNU 1.2.
A new year means new beginnings. But for the residents of Florida Keys, a small archipelago off Florida’s coast, the dawn of 2021 seems to portend ill winds.
In August 2020, the local government approved a plan to release 750 million genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes. A British biotech company named Oxitec has planned to execute this release over two years. However, over 236,000 people have signed…
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