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Title: BUGGED OUT Deadly ‘super mosquitoes that are even tougher’ accidentally created by scientists after
Post by: rangerrebew on September 19, 2019, 05:09:10 pm
BUGGED OUT Deadly ‘super mosquitoes that are even tougher’ accidentally created by scientists after bungled experiment

    Charlotte Edwards, Digital Technology and Science Reporter

    17 Sep 2019, 17:49Updated: 18 Sep 2019, 15:21
 

GENETICALLY modified mosquitoes that were designed by scientists to help populations decrease are actually thriving.

This is according to new research that claims the plan to create gene-hacked mosquitoes that have offspring which die immediately has spectacularly backfired and now scientists don't know what will happen next.

The plan to decrease mosquitoes populations with genetically modified insects has backfired
 

The modified mosquitoes were released in Jacobina in Brazil and were supposed to mix with the local population and decrease numbers with their weak offspring genetics.

Although the wild population did plummet for a short while, 18 months later it was right back up again.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/9947305/deadly-super-mosquitoes-accidentally-created/ (https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/9947305/deadly-super-mosquitoes-accidentally-created/)