Tuesday, June 21st 2011
UK Government backs moth genome research Oxitec and CGR’s diamondback moth gene discovery proposal wins Technology Strategy Board funding Read more Production capacity increase Oxitec is constructing a production facility to meet demand for between 10 and 20 million mosquito eggs a week Read more Dengue fever: the patient’s perspective ‘The fever hit like a more »
Friday, May 27th 2011
BBC World Service The BBC World Service broadcast a special edition of their flagship science programme Discovery on Oxitec and our Brazilian project. Listen at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00gpj2l or download from http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/discovery There have also been some recent articles in other languages Le Monde (French, Click to open) Asahi Shimbun (Japanese) at https://aspara.asahi.com/blog/science/entry/gEznAAfnmS and De Volkskrant (Dutch) more »
Tuesday, April 5th 2011
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, more »
Friday, March 4th 2011
Issue 5 Cayman demonstrates RIDL® potential, Brazil evaluates RIDL® for Dengue, Dengue 2010 review, Malaysian field trial goes ahead, first results from trials for RIDL® olive fly and ‘Boldness’ nomination. Oxitec Newsletter March 2011
Thursday, January 27th 2011
GM mosquitoes deployed to control Asia’s dengue fever Dengue Fever Graphic
