Although the protocol applies to GM mosquitoes intended for disease control, its terms were negotiated primarily with concerns over the safety and trade of GM crops in mind. A sub-working group ...

Scientists in Brazil are releasing genetically modified mosquitoes into the environment to combat soaring cases of dengue fever in the country. More than 1 million cases of the viral, mosquito ...

Mosquito-borne diseases like dengue fever cause hundreds of thousands of deaths every year and a new venture wants to change that by introducing genetically modified mosquitoes (GMMs) right here ...

Genetically modified mosquitoes with poisonous semen could soon be deployed in a bid to take out the disease carrying female mosquitoes. Researchers from the government funded CSIRO have worked ...

Genetically modified mosquitoes with poisonous semen will soon be deployed in a bid to take out the disease carrying female mosquitoes plaguing Queensland. Researchers from the government funded ...

London, Oct 11 In an important research development a genetically modified mosquito has been created that wipe out natural mosquito populations and save thousands of lives in malaria-stricken ...

A biotechnology firm is seeking approval to release genetically modified mosquitoes en masse in Queensland in a bid to curb a number of deadly viruses. Here’s how it would work. Oxitec Australia ...

has completed one run of its field trial involving genetically-modified (GM) male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes at a forest near Bentong, Pahang. IMR director Dr Shahnaz Murad said the institute ...

The Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) has extended its research on the behaviour of genetically modified mosquitoes to ...