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Genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in Florida and Texas beginning this summer – silver bullet or jumping the gun?

  • Written by Brian Allan, Associate Professor of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in Florida and Texas beginning this summer – silver bullet or jumping the gun?In 2018 scientists of the Miami-Dade County Mosquito Control tested a new way to suppress mosquito populations carrying the Zika virus. RHONA WISE/AFP via Getty Images

This summer, for the first time, genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in the U.S.

On May 1, 2020, the company Oxitec received an experimental use permit from the U.S....

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