Mandacaru field trial report – press summary Oxitec report 96% suppression of the dengue mosquito in Brazilian trials Oxitec, Oxford, UK 20th May 2013 Oxitec’s ground-breaking approach to pest control has again been demonstrated in a further trial carried out by Moscamed in Brazil. In this trial Moscamed achieved a 96% suppression of the dengue [...]
Oxitec recently featured on a Dengue Programme for La Gran Historia. The video (in Spanish) can be found here
A surge in dengue fever cases among people returning to the U.K. spurred Public Health England to urge travelers to better protect themselves from insect bites while abroad. Confirmed and probable dengue cases among those returning to England, Wales and Northern Ireland almost tripled to 141 in the first four months of the year from [...]
Oxitec recognised by prestigious Frost and Sullivan award for its pioneering system of pest control Oxitec is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the 2013 Europe New Product Innovation Award by Frost & Sullivan, in recognition of its groundbreaking and environmentally-friendly approach to pest control. Frost and Sullivan describe Oxitec’s leading-edge pest control [...]
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Natural predators of mosquitoes suffer no ill-effects when fed on a diet of genetically engineered mosquitoes, concludes a new study published in the journal PlosOne today. Oxitec has developed a novel approach to pest control based on the release of genetically engineered ‘sterile’ male insects. Because the approach exclusively targets a single species and avoids [...]
Chief Executive of Oxitec, Hadyn Parry, presented Oxitec’s solution to insect-borne disease and agricultural pests at the U.S. State Department conference ‘Biotechnology: Role of Biotechnology in Advancing Health and Food Security’. At the conference Hadyn Parry described how Oxitec, a British biotech company, has used biotechnology to solve threats posed by disease-spreading insects and food [...]
NEWSLETTER February 2013 Brazil: Moscamed gear up for the next phase In December the Brazilian regulatory authority Comissao Tecnica Nacional de Biosseguranca (CTNBio) formally approved the next phase of using Oxitec’s Aedes aegypti product strain, OX513A, to help combat the wild mosquitoes that spread dengue. In this next phase Moscamed will treat the town of [...]
Two recent surveys have revealed that the majority of Florida Keys residents are supportive of the use of genetic engineering of mosquitoes to control the species of mosquito which spreads dengue fever. The surveys were conducted by Mike Cobb and students of North Carolina State University. Two studies, one focussing of residents of Key West and the [...]
Once I feared GM crops. Now I see that they are a vital part of modern agriculture Franken-food: lurid cornflakes, lime-green carrots, fluorescent salmon, unbruisable apples, all microwavable for added carcinogens. That’s what I thought once about genetically modified food. It was an uncontrollable monster, a grotesque distortion of nature. We didn’t want to be [...]