Search This Blog

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Zika: Company fights virus with mutant mosquitoes - Jan. 27, 2016

It may sound crazy to purposely introduce more mosquitoes into the air, but that's exactly what the small British company Oxitec is doing.



Oxitec -- a subsidiary of the biotech firm Intrexon (XON) -- is working to control the mosquito-borne Zika virus outbreak in Brazil with its genetically modified mosquitoes.



Zika: Company fights virus with mutant mosquitoes - Jan. 27, 2016

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.