Monday, March 19th 2007

Oxitec has developed a strain of mosquito with the key features required to control the yellow fever mosquito, the principal urban vector of dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever viruses.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/5/11/abstract

Monday, March 5th 2007

“Here’s the problem with sterilizing male mosquitoes using radiation: Females don’t find them sexy anymore. Irradiating insects can be an effective control strategy, but it only works if the males remain buff enough to attract females–and irradiated male mosquitoes are sickly and unattractive. Oxitec, a four-year-old biotech company in Oxford, England, has come up with [...]