Alphabet's Life Science Division Verily Is Releasing 20 Million Mosquitoes in California
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Verily, the life sciences branch of Alphabet (Google's parent company), has started releasing millions of mosquitoes in…
Verily, the life sciences branch of Alphabet (Google's parent company), has started releasing millions of mosquitoes in…
caption But they’re infecting them with bacteria first — waging biological warfare on the bugs.
Published by Business Insider on Mon, 17 Jul 2017 Verily, the life sciences branch of Alphabet (Google's parent company), has…
Verily, the life sciences branch of Alphabet (Google's parent company),. The team behind the project - made up of scientists…
(But they're infecting them with bacteria first — waging biological warfare on the bugs.CDC) Verily, the life sciences branch…
Verily, the life sciences branch of Alphabet (Google's parent company), has started releasing millions of mosquitoes in…
Verily, the life sciences branch of Alphabet (Google’s parent company), has started releasing millions of mosquitoes in…
Aedes aegypti mosquito More (But they’re infecting them with bacteria first — waging biological warfare on the bugs.CDC) Verily…
모기를 비롯한 다양한 절지동물에 감염되는 월바치아속에 속하는 세균들은 사람에 감염되는 다양한 바이러스를 옮기는 매개 곤충 역할을 한다. 월바치아 감염은 ‘세포질 불화합성’을 유발하는데, 이는 감염된 수컷과 감염되지 않은 암컷에 의해…
沃尔巴克氏体( Wolbachia )能感染许多节肢动物,包括许多感染人类的病毒的载体——蚊子。沃尔巴克氏体感染会导致细胞质不亲和性,即受感染的雄性和未受感染的雌性杂交产生的后代会在胚胎期死亡,从而增加了被感染的雌性在种群中的比例。此前,人们并不知晓这一效应…
모기를 비롯한 다양한 절지동물에 감염되는 월바치아속에 속하는 세균들은 사람에 감염되는 다양한 바이러스를 옮기는 매개 곤충 역할을 한다. 월바치아 감염은 ‘세포질 불화합성’을 유발하는데, 이는 감염된 수컷과 감염되지 않은 암컷에 의해…
Wolbachia is the most successful parasite the world has ever known. You’ve never heard of it because it only infects bugs…
Wolbachia is a lesser heard parasite because it only infects bugs: millions upon millions of species of insects, spiders…
Video courtesy of Vanderbilt University Wolbachia is the most successful parasite the world has ever known.
Wolbachia (red) in insect testes (blue)SETH BORDENSTEIN/VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY Two papers published in Nature and Nature…
There are two basic strategies for using Wolbachia’s incompatibility genes for combatting mosquito-borne diseases: (left) Use…
Thomson ReutersA pair of bacterial genes may enable genetic engineering strategies for curbing populations of virus-transmitting…
View photosGenetically modified male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are pictured at Oxitec factory in Piracicaba, Brazil, October 26…
(Thomson Reuters) A pair of bacterial genes may enable genetic engineering strategies for curbing populations of virus-transmitti…
(Thomson Reuters) A pair of bacterial genes may enable genetic engineering strategies for curbing populations of virus-transmitti…
(Thomson Reuters) A pair of bacterial genes may enable genetic engineering strategies for curbing populations of virus-transmitti…
Thomson Reuters A pair of bacterial genes may enable genetic engineering strategies for curbing populations of virus-transmitting…
The bacterium operates by taking over its hosts' reproduction. ‘The insect parasite Wolbachia controls its hosts' reproduction…
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A pair of bacterial genes may enable genetic engineering strategies for curbing populations of virus-transmitting mosquitoes.
Wolbachia is the most successful parasite the world has ever known. You've never heard of it because it only infects bugs…