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The gamble: can genetically-modified mosquitoes end disease? (www.irishtimes.com)

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The gene engineering technology they are using could, in just a few generations – a matter of months when it comes to mosquitoes – make every member of the species that transmits malaria here, the Anopheles coluzzii, effectively immune to the parasite.

We need a Final Solution to the mosquito question, not this hogwash

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it really wouldn't. they don't have any biomass to provide nutrition with: it's the reason they feed on blood. managing mosquito populations would increase the health (and biomass) of their blood hosts and lead to healthier wildlife populations