It’s probably just my knee-jerk paranoia, but seems like this could end badly.
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toxic masculinity. Literally.
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1 Aedes aegypti vector is more worrisome the southern you go
2 This experiment sounds like sounds like central Florida love bug urban legend
3 Human safety experiments will still be needed. I worry this would be tested in
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Interesting approach Atul.
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'Tis interesting but adding any GMO into the natural world creeps me out. They want to introduce GMO mice (millions) on Nantucket?!
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Some feel that altering the mosquito population may have an impact beyond the expected borders. E.g. CRISPR https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/science/gene-drives-crispr.html?_r=1 …pic.twitter.com/mNdgPBjFKU
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Yep. That's what we've beeing doing in Brazil for the past year and a half.
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Since 2015 Brazil has been releasing GM Aedes aegypti male mosquitoes that carry a genetic mutation that makes their descendants die in larval stage & has had a success 99% success rate in reducing the wild Aedes aegypti mosquito population.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4489809/ …
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What could possibly go wrong????? This is not a good idea.
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This is a bad idea. Every time people release some bio-containment plan with good intentions, there are unknown and unanticipated consequences. In time something will happen, like populations of birds that eat a mozzies will diminish, and then we'll see the dominos start to fall
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Intresting
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Would it be possible to target the diseases-carrying capability of the female mosquitoes, instead of making them sterile, and possibly eliminating them completely?
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What could go wrong?
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I'm all about it! ... Let's get that happening...
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awesome---makes me wonder if weaponized insects will become a thing
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They already are. How about not forcing change, when nature is in its natural cycle we have proper evaluation. Human forced altering on the eco system has caused layers of irreversible damage. Fixing what they broke over and over.
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I too wondered if we would be eliminating a viable link in the food chain; unless we are speaking of Africa..
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