Monday, July 09, 2012

What Could Go Wrong?


Releasing genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild.
According to health officials, mosquitoes bred in such an installation receive injections of different viruses, which are transmitted in the instant of reproduction and kill the larvae before they are born, which means the number of mosquitoes tends to diminish.
That doesn't sound genetically modified, that sounds like mosquitoes injected with viruses. What's the genetically modified part?

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