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"The mosquitoes are genetically altered to need a particular chemical in order for their offspring to be non-sterile."

Life, uh, finds a way.



That's an interesting development. Normally to release a lot of sterile mosquitoes you breed lots of regular ones and then have to sterilize batches. A skeeter with a dietary sterile-offspring switch is really useful.


>Life, uh, finds a way.

But what is the failure scenario? Mosquitos in the wild? There are already mosquitos in the wild, and they are infected with zika and dengue.

Worst case scenario is better than the status quo.


Sorry, that was a popular culture reference.


You were so concerned with with whether or not you could make a pop culture reference, you didn't stop to think if you should.


Wow, I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition!




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