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Zika: Science Confident In GM Mosquitoes But Activists Keep Florida Residents In A Panic

... is considering a trial in Key Haven. The British company, Oxitec, has been trying for years to get approval for tests but activists ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2016 - 5:44am - 0 attachments

Transgenic Pest Control: Modified Mosquitoes Put A Stop To Dengue Fever

... population crashers A British biotech company, Oxitec , regularly releases millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in ... females are released. This is critical because Oxitec has to prevent the genetically modified insects from breeding with each ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 12 2015 - 9:47am - 0 attachments

Genetically Engineered Fruit Flies Could Save Crops Better Than Sterilization

... to scientists at the University of East Anglia and Oxitec Ltd. Credit: Oxitec Ltd "Of all of the current techniques used to control these ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2014 - 6:30am - 0 attachments

Frankenstein Was Not A GMO

... Huffington Post -ish in an article July 17th about Oxitec's genetically modified mosquito to control dengue outbreaks in various ... is a positive. Toward that end, a British company named Oxitec has created a genetically modified dengue mosquito strain, and in the ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 12 2014 - 8:05pm - 0 attachments

Friends Of The Earth Hate Clean Energy - And So Does President Obama

Nuclear power is not an environmental issue. There is just no way to spin that it is.  What started off with activists being anti-nuclear weapon has morphed into irrational, anti-science stances against all energy - even reactors that simply c ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 3 2013 - 12:55pm - 0 attachments

Aedes Albopictus: Wings Of The Asian Tiger Mosquito Clipped

... mosquito, Aedes albopictus , has been created by Oxitec scientists, a breakthrough that could help stop the spread of this ... as mosquitoes develop resistance.   An Oxitec team led by Dr Genevieve Labbe genetically modified the mosquitoes with ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2012 - 4:15pm - 0 attachments

Dengue Fever And The Next Phase Of Transgenic Mosquitoes To Fight It

... opened their new facility, which will enable production of Oxitec's mosquitoes to be scaled up to an initial level sufficient for a town ... Science and Technology.  The evaluation of Oxitec mosquitoes in Brazil is called 'Project Aedes Transgenico' (PAT) and is ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2012 - 11:21pm - 0 attachments

Genetic Technology Provides An Improved Approach To Controlling Cotton Pest Moth

Oxitec's novel genetic fluorescent marking technology can substantially improve ... bollworm, according to findings of a new study.  Oxitec scientists, working in partnership with the US Department of ... doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0038547.g001 Oxitec's solution is simple: by transforming the moth with a gene that produces ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2012 - 10:08am - 0 attachments

First Phase Of Oxitec's Brazil Trial Successfully Completed

... the first phase of a project to evaluate the potential for Oxitec's genetically modified dengue mosquito strain, Aedes aegypti OX513A, to ... results have successfully demonstrated the ability of Oxitec male mosquitoes to mate with wild females, validating the Oxitec ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 3 2012 - 5:03pm - 0 attachments

Sex, The Mosquito And Dengue Fever

... the first of these Global award for dengue control   Oxitec , an Oxford based company, are applying the classic “sterile ... “sterile atomic fly” to combat sleeping sickness.  Oxitec, however, are using genetics and molecular biology. In the second ‘ ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Jan 17 2009 - 2:24am - 0 attachments