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by Christophe » 21/04/14, 10:29

How many generations can a mosquito make during a season?

Brazil to unleash millions of GM mosquitoes against dengue fever

Will the mosquito be the first animal - or rather insect - genetically modified that we will encounter in nature? The question is posed as Brazil is authorizing the release of a sterile transgenic mosquito to control dengue fever. This news, which has raised hopes for the fight against this serious epidemic, has provoked the controversy and opposition of many NGOs.

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http://ecologie.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/04 ... -la-dengue : Shock: :|

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by sen-no-sen » 21/04/14, 13:56

Christophe wrote:How many generations can a mosquito make during a season?


Normally they are sterile, normally ...
I hope it will not be barren like the Jurassik park dinosaurs!
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by Christophe » 21/04/14, 19:00

Normally in theory yes ... I quote the article above:

Because in reality, not all mosquitoes are sterile. According to Oxitec, 3% of transgenic mosquitoes still manage to survive, even without the presence of tetracycline. And in a polluted environment, where this antibiotic is found in wastewater, the larvae have a survival rate of around 15%, says Inf'OGM.
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by Ahmed » 30/04/14, 20:07

An excellent article, as usual, of F. Nicolino, here.
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by GuyGadebois » 01/10/19, 16:57

GMO mosquitoes breed with their wild cousins

In Brazil, hundreds of thousands of transgenic mosquitoes, genetically modified so that their progeny do not grow, have been disseminated in the environment. A study published in Nature shows that these GMO mosquitoes have had fertile offspring with wild relatives. Researchers thus show the inefficiency of the technology in the fight against dengue but also point out potential risks.
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by Janic » 01/10/19, 17:47

like for wild and vaccine viruses. That's crazy! : Cheesy:
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by Exnihiloest » 02/10/19, 16:53

Like any technology, GMOs can be used for our greater good or greater misfortune. To condemn everything a priori does not make sense. Even a hammer can be used to kill his mother-in-law, should the hammer be forbidden?

When I arrived in French Guiana the first time, for work, the colleagues who welcomed me returned from the burial of one of them, died of dengue haemorrhagic fever. Of the millions of others that Nature offers us, I did not know this crap before that day. Since then, I have retained it. The Brazilians are right to give it a shot, and the smart ecologists do not oppose it when we know that dengue fever makes more than a million cases a year in Brazil.
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by GuyGadebois » 02/10/19, 16:55

Exnihiloest wrote:Like any technology, GMOs can be used for our greater good or greater misfortune. To condemn everything a priori does not make sense. Even a hammer can be used to kill his mother-in-law, should the hammer be forbidden?

When I arrived in French Guiana the first time, for work, the colleagues who welcomed me returned from the burial of one of them, died of dengue haemorrhagic fever. Of the millions of others that Nature offers us, I did not know this crap before that day. Since then, I have retained it. The Brazilians are right to give it a shot, and the smart ecologists do not oppose it when we know that dengue fever makes more than a million cases a year in Brazil.

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