Technology Strategy Board awards Oxitec and Liverpool University grant to sequence diamondback moth genome
In a UK-funded competition, for projects aiming to use genome sequencing to develop new products, the UK Government’s Technology Strategy Board have named Oxitec and the Centre for Genomic Research (CGR) in Liverpool as winners for their proposed ‘Gene discovery in the diamondback moth for novel pest control’. Costing an annual US$1 billion to control, [...]