Anti-GM Groups Attempt to Sully Transgenic Control of Dengue Fever

Written by Scientific American Topic - Medical Ethics on January 12, 2012 – 7:00 pm -

Genetically engineered mosquitoes developed by British biotech firm Oxitec as an approach to controlling dengue fever have been caught up in controversy since 6,000 of them were deliberately released to an uninhabited forest in Malaysia in a trial in December 2010.

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