[Brookhaven]

Winter mosquitos.

What next?

[rdl6989]

Genetically modified by the Chinese to be immune to cold weather?????

[mewzilla]

Guess they think they can’t keep blaming camels and bats.

[Rebelbase]

[AdmSmith]

We should be positive and use gene technology.

Gene drive: self-destructing mosquitoes

The process is made possible by what is called “gene drive”. This consists of introducing genetically modified organisms designed to propagate a chosen trait, in this case a gene that kills females during development. Gene drives involves distorting inheritance in favor of the gene that we are interested in being transmitted. It consists of breaking the probability that a baby has a 50% of inheriting any gene from any of the parents. Gene drives manages to raise the probability to 80-90%, thus guaranteeing that a new introduced gene spreads in the population generation after generation until the majority of individuals possess it.

http://www.mosquitoalert.com/en/gene-drive-self-destructing-mosquitoes/