This article originally appeared on Undark. This spring, the biotechnology company Oxitec plans to release genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. Oxitec says its technology will ...

The first release of genetically modified mosquitoes in the United States began this week in the Florida Keys – the culmination of a decade-long effort by local mosquito control authorities to ...

A plan to release over 750 million genetically modified mosquitoes into the Florida Keys in 2021 and 2022 received final approval from local authorities, against the objection of many local ...

Developed by the biotechnology company Oxitec, the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are genetically modified so that males, which do not bite, are released into the wild and mate with females ...

Then they added water. In a week or so, 12,000 male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes will – one by one – begin buzzing out of each box, the first genetically modified mosquitoes to be released ...

It sounds like something out of a science fiction movie: a biotech company releases hundreds of thousands of genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild to control the mosquito population.

Key Haven is debating an experimental test of genetically modified mosquitos. But Greager’s island escape may soon be threatened. Zika virus, a mosquito-borne disease linked to devastating birth ...

It sounds utterly bizarre at first. But the idea of using genetically modified mosquitoes as weapons to kill off wild mosquitoes is rapidly gaining traction. “Given the magnitude of the Zika ...

Thousands of genetically modified mosquitoes have begun to be released in Florida this week as part of an effort to combat a disease-spreading species of the insect. The buzzy project, from ...

There are no mosquito-release programs in Ohio. Oxitec, which releases genetically modified mosquitoes in order to reduce the pest’s population, is the only such program approved in the U.S. It ...

This spring, the biotechnology company Oxitec plans to release genetically modified, or GM, mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. Oxitec says its technology will combat dengue fever, a potentially life ...