Monday, November 21st 2011

The construction of a waterway that would provide cargo ships with a direct route between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, thereby avoiding the need to circumvent South America, had been a dream of many traders and statesmen since colonial times. Early attempts by the French government to build such a route across the Isthmus of more »

Thursday, November 17th 2011

Oxitec announced this month that it is collaborating with Gangabishan Bhikulal Investment and Trading Limited (GBIT) to bring Oxitec’s RIDL® technology to India to help combat Aedes aegypti, the mosquito vector for the viral diseases dengue and chikungunya. Under this collaboration GBIT will develop, produce and market the RIDL technology in India. Mosquito-borne diseases are more »

Thursday, November 10th 2011

Oxitec joins GBIT to tackle Dengue in India Oxitec announced this month that is it collabortaing with Gangabishab Bhikulal Investment and Trading Limited (GBIT) in India to bring Oxitec’s RIDL® technology to India to help combat Aedes aegypti…Read more Gorgas Institute evaluates RIDL® technology in Panama The construction of a waterway that would provide cargo more »

Tuesday, September 13th 2011

In the urban jungle of Juazeiro in Brazil, an army is being unleashed. It is an army like no other: the soldiers’ mission is to copulate rather than fight. But they are harbingers of death, not love. Their children appear healthy at first but die just before they reach adulthood, struck down by the killer genes more »

Friday, September 9th 2011

Brazil field trials progress Community engagement is key: local media, community presentations, school talks and door to door visits Read more Dengue in Asia 2011 Dengue poses a severe and increasing threat to health, despite massive efforts to control its spread Read more RIDL® medfly control crop damage Economically important crops offered by female lethal more »