Biotech company Oxitec is partnering with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to create genetically engineered mosquitoes that will help combat the spread of malaria, Oxitec said in a release on Tuesday, Apr 30, 2021.
The Gates Foundation is giving $4 million for Oxitec, a subsidiary of Intrexon and formed by Oxford University, to create so-called “Friendly Mosquitoes,” which pass along a gene mutation that kills the insect before they can bite humans. WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
These genetically modified mosquitoes were released in 2021 and Malaria was eliminated in the USA in 1951. Lets see what the latest mosquito news in 2023!!
But of course there is no way that these events are related at all!
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