
Meredith Fensom: Update on Self-Limiting Mosquitoes
Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta
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Calabra's Talking Biotec Podcast
We're talking about the mosquito technologies that limit populations. We use biology to give our non biting male mosquitoes a self limiting gean. Then when they are released an the wild and mate with the invasive pess females, the female offspring of those encounters cannot survive. But that's ok, because male mosquitoes do not bite. You've never been bitten by a male mosquito. And in pretty short order, those friendly males run out of females to meet with. And essentially the population crashes, yes?
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