Proponents hope the field will not face the same opposition as biotechnology crops.Not if you're a bird! the birds I know need to eat lots of mosquitoes! That's why the fly or migrate from way south - from the equator - all the way up to Minnesota to spend the summer feasting on Mosquitoes! I want those birds to stick around. Apparently the GE scientists - funded by Big Ag and Big Pharma - think that birds are not needed...
“You don’t eat insects,” said Dr. James of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. “This is being done for a good cause.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/magazine/gene-drive-mosquitoes.html
oops - paywall!
a bird, for instance, cannot acquire the gene by eating the bug.What bug? HOw's a bird supposed to eat the bug if you're killing off the species of bugs?!
The modified mosquito’s lifecycle is about a month, and the company has raised more than 150 generations with no mutations to the mosquitoes.So they're saying that in 10 years time we could have an entirely different mutated species?
But mosquitoes, which carry avian malaria, are a principal reason that just forty-two of more than a hundred species of native Hawaiian birds remain. Most of them are endangered.https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/could-genetically-modified-mosquitoes-save-hawaiis-endangered-birds
paywall'd again!
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/01/698708765/your-questions-about-italys-gmo-mosquito-experiment-answered
Don't worry - your questions answered... by Big corporate-state finessing PR firms...
But there are hundreds of mosquito species. So many that scientists think dramatically suppressing, or even completely removing, just one would not significantly impact the food chain. Many other mosquito species would still available for these animals to eat.Really? How do these species adapt and evolve? What about transposons as horizontal gene transfer by bacteria and virus between the mosquitoes?
Molecular Genetic Manipulation of Vector Mosquitoes
However, the prospects for using genetically-engineered mosquitoes to control ... Class II transposons are not the only means of integrating exogenous DNA in ...by O Terenius - 2008 - Cited by 65 - Related articles
Gene Drive for Mosquito Control: Where Did It Come from and ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc › articles › PMC5615543
So another "commericial" PR Puff piece - like "Atoms for Peace" science.Jump to What Cas9 Has Done for Synthetic Genetic Engineering and ... - ... technique was applied to mosquitoes to create specific ... to be genetically modified to include An. funestus, ... wasn't possible with transposon- and ϕC31-based ... by VM Macias - 2017 - Cited by 49 - Related articles
"with increased efficiency...."really? efficiency towards "what" - Mother Nature is way more complicated than these genetic engineers with their linear view of time will ever realize. Abrupt global warming is already killing off the "bugs."
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