Tag: GMO

Biotech company bets on GMO mosquitoes to fight dengue in Brazil as cases surge

By Leonardo Benassatto (Reuters) – British biotechnology company Oxitec is betting on a solution to Brazil’s surging dengue cases, involving the release of genetically modified mosquitoes in an effort to reduce the viral infection’s spread. The firm has developed a version of the male Aedes aegypti mosquito which carries a gene that kills female offspring […]