US EditionScientists Reveal Plans to Release Lab-Grown Insects for Crucial Mission: 'Will Be Able to Protect Around 7 Million People'
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Scientists reveal plans to release lab-grown insects for crucial mission: 'Will be able to protect around 7 million people'
Hard-hit Brazilians are gaining another layer of defense against the mosquito-spread dengue fever, known by many as break-bone fever, Reuters reported. The critical aid comes via the July 19 opening of the world's largest mosquito biofactory in Curitiba, Brazil: the Wolbito do Brasil plant. Lab-grown mosquitoes infected with a special bacteria will be strategically released in response to local hotspots for the virus. This bacterium, which only …
BRAZILIA, October 10.- Government authorities and entomologists experts in Brazil recently inaugurated the largest biofactory on the planet for the production of modified mosquitoes that combat dengue, zika and chikungunya. Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes produced in that megafactory are carriers of a bacterium called Wolbachia, which prevents the transmission of dengue and other diseases. Five billion mosquitoes will be produced in one year, which wil…
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