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
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