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The gamble: can genetically-modified mosquitoes end disease? (www.irishtimes.com)
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The gene engineering technology they are using could, in just a few generations – a matter of months when it comes to mosquitoes – make every member of the species that transmits malaria here, the Anopheles coluzzii, effectively immune to the parasite.

We need a Final Solution to the mosquito question, not this hogwash

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They make up a huge chunk of biomass. It's more likely to cause a food chain collapse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"isn't critical to any plants humans rely on"

that's so fucking dumb. so, so, so, so, so fucking dumb.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah no kidding, way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with such a shitty argument.