Thursday, July 1st 2010
Newsletter issue 3: Read about our RIDL strain of the Asian Tiger Mosquito, dengue fever in South America, how our strategies impact the food chain, how we plan field trials, and more. Oxitec newsletter July 2010.
April 2010 Oxitec newsletter
Tuesday, April 27th 2010
Newsletter issue 2: Tackling the olive fly, the spread of dengue fever in the Caribbean, pioneers of mass-rearing, and more. April 2010 newsletter.
Oxitec newsletter launched
Thursday, February 25th 2010
Oxitec is a pioneer in controlling insects that transmit disease and damage crops. We are developing a number of insect strains to help control insects in a safe and sustainable way. This is a regular newsletter to keep you up to date with Oxitec developments.
University of Irvine and Oxitec announce development of new flightless female mosquito to help control dengue fever
Monday, February 22nd 2010
A new strain of mosquitoes in which females cannot fly, and therefore cannot mate or spread disease, presents a potential breakthorugh in the control of dengue fever. The announcement was made by the University of California, Irvine, and relates to Oxitec’s OX3604C Aedes aegypti strain.
TSB award for production technology
Thursday, December 3rd 2009
Oxitec has been awarded a grant by the Technology Strategy Board’s ‘Feasibility Studies for Technology-Inspired Innovation’ competition. Together with a manufacturing company, Oxitec will develop prototype equipment for use in mass-production of sterile mosquitoes. As our technology for the control of the mosquitoes that spread dengue fever moves closer to market, we are developing the [...]