Genetic engineering can suppress mosquitoes: researchers insert a gene into male mosquitoes that means their offspring will not survive, and then release them into the wild, where they mate with females, prevent those females having any surviving offspring, and collapse local populations. In 2000, biologists at the University of Oxford demonstrated that this idea could work in fruit flies. They engineered the flies to carry a gene that makes a protein called tTAV, harmless in small amounts but lethal when it builds up. In the lab, the insects are reared in a medium laced with the antibiotic tetracycline, which keeps the gene switched off. But, in the wild, where there is no tetracycline, the gene switches on, and the offspring die before adulthood.
The fact that this is discussed like this so simply, means it's probably being done to Humans too. I tend to think anything that applies to one thing will apply to all the things at some point. And not because the person writing this is evil - but because at some point someone evil will get their hands on this technology and deploy it at scale.
The paper is well written and seems to make sense. Bioengineering genetically modified mosquitoes so the males can't reproduce
Has been done and works in major cities just needs to be taken up on a large enough scale to have an effect before the mosquito population have a mutation
I would say making a super sqeeto is the concern of the operation. But overall more efficient(and probably safer) than the slew of pesticide usage over the decades
> The lethal gene
Genetic engineering can suppress mosquitoes: researchers insert a gene into male mosquitoes that means their offspring will not survive, and then release them into the wild, where they mate with females, prevent those females having any surviving offspring, and collapse local populations. In 2000, biologists at the University of Oxford demonstrated that this idea could work in fruit flies. They engineered the flies to carry a gene that makes a protein called tTAV, harmless in small amounts but lethal when it builds up. In the lab, the insects are reared in a medium laced with the antibiotic tetracycline, which keeps the gene switched off. But, in the wild, where there is no tetracycline, the gene switches on, and the offspring die before adulthood.
The fact that this is discussed like this so simply, means it's probably being done to Humans too. I tend to think anything that applies to one thing will apply to all the things at some point. And not because the person writing this is evil - but because at some point someone evil will get their hands on this technology and deploy it at scale.
The paper is well written and seems to make sense. Bioengineering genetically modified mosquitoes so the males can't reproduce
Has been done and works in major cities just needs to be taken up on a large enough scale to have an effect before the mosquito population have a mutation
I would say making a super sqeeto is the concern of the operation. But overall more efficient(and probably safer) than the slew of pesticide usage over the decades