Results from first US trial of genetically modified mosquitoes

Re:Results from first US trial of genetically modified mosqu... by rkagerer on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @01:38PM (#31100333)

I'm disappointed this article doesn't contain a single quote from either the researchers or Oxitec (nor does the earlier article it links to).

The experiment has been underway since April 2021 in the Florida Keys ... over the course of seven months, and has now almost completed monitoring the release sites.

An obvious question would be "What are you monitoring?" and to explain why 7 months is sufficient to detect any ecological changes.

Not for or against the research, and I understand it's a magazine article not a newspaper story, but this seems like more of a PR piece than real reporting.

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Re:Results from first US trial of genetically modified mosqu... by teddyg1 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @02:32PM (#31101064)

Oxitec has also been doing trials in other countries for a while dating back to 2014. https://www.oxitec.com/panama

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Re:Results from first US trial of genetically modified mosqu... by tclancy on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @02:11PM (#31100803)

Completely uninformed on the topic, but what I inferred (it is strange it's never explicitly said) is they are trying to determine how well they can contain the effect of the mosquitoes to the intended area.

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