Conservationists and some community members fear that altering mosquito populations could destabilise ecosystems or pose ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

And they moved the scientists one step closer to their goal: replacing the mosquitoes that live here now with ones they have genetically modified so that they can no longer transmit the malaria ...

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 ...