Mosquito Factories Fight Zika With GMOsquitos | HowStuffWorks NOW
How do we fight an enemy like Zika virus or Dengue fever? Outside of vaccines, we often turn to mosquito eradication, but scientists around the world strive to evolve this tactic beyond the use of pesticides and water management. Instead, they’re changing the mosquito, sometimes at the genetic level.
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VIDEO CLIPS:
How Mosquitoes Use Six Needles to Suck Your Blood Deep Look
Inside You When a MOSQUITO Bites – Mosquito Finds Blood Vessel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjHm2zKiTs0
Dengue virus infection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PUsdv1kDTc
Mosquito larvae and pupae under water
Mosquito Larvae in a Water Filled Bucket
Guangzhou Areal /Drone/ This is Guangzhou!
Mosquito laying eggs, eggs hatching (#311)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwIqGbhq4T8
Mosquito Courtship
RPV Adult Mosquitoes mating on the ground
Dengue virus infection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PUsdv1kDTc
Mosquito life cycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFfO7f8Vr9c
ADN dans un chromosome
Frog Trying To Catch Firefly – Super Slow Motion – HD
RELATED LINKS:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600821/inside-the-mosquito-factory-that-could-stop-dengue-and-zika/
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600689/we-have-the-technology-to-destroy-all-zika-mosquitoes/
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/06/the-worlds-largest-mosquito-factory/489251/
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html
http://www.eliminatedengue.com/our-research/wolbachia
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/pollinator-of-the-month/aedes_communis.shtml
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