
Meredith Fensom: Update on Self-Limiting Mosquitoes
Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta
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Introducing a Self Limiting Gen to the Environment
The self limiting gen continues at a half life. So after about ten generations, if if we stop the releases of our mosquitoes, it disappears completely from the environment. And really there are a lot of advantages for beneficial insects like bees and buter because it does not harm them. The path to to approval for these pilots was very long. It was more than than ten years.
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