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Bill Gate Donate $4.1m To Create Self Destruct Mosquitoes by medfortblog: 9:21pm On Jun 24, 2018
Bill Gates has donated $4.1 million to a lab creating mosquitoes that self-destruct by producing offspring that dies before reaching adulthood.

Scientists at British biotech firm Oxitec are infecting female mosquitoes (the only ones that bite) with a hereditary gene that means their offspring cannot survive outside a lab.

They have seen success with Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which spread Zika, reducing their populations in some regions by up to 90 percent.
But now, they plan to identify a new gene to infect malaria-carrying Anopheles mosquitoes, with a new crop slated to start trials in 2020.

Gates' donation is all part of his ambitious bid to eliminate malaria from the world 'within a generation'.

The move comes a year after Florida released thousands of another kind of self-destructive mosquitoes, in a desperate bid to control the Zika outbreak.

The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District released 20,000 male mosquitoes infected by the Kentucky-based company MosquitoMate with naturally occurring Wolbachia bacteria.


http://medfort.com.ng/bill-gate-donate-4-1m-to-create-self-destruct-mosquitoes/

Re: Bill Gate Donate $4.1m To Create Self Destruct Mosquitoes by Inspire06: 9:25pm On Jun 24, 2018
My dear nairalanders pls help me. Am looking for a job in lagos. I just need to work and be able to survive in lagos. Pls help
Re: Bill Gate Donate $4.1m To Create Self Destruct Mosquitoes by Nobody: 9:56pm On Jun 24, 2018
The only thing money can't do is giving living breathe
Re: Bill Gate Donate $4.1m To Create Self Destruct Mosquitoes by Thegamingorca(m): 10:14pm On Jun 24, 2018
God should bless this man even more

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