The biotech firm Oxitec has released results from their one-year field test. Do you hail this new era of pest control, or dread it?
>genetically-engineered males carry a gene that is lethal to female offspring. If all goes to plan, when released into the environment,
>the engineered males should mate with wild females, and their female offspring will die before they can reproduce. Male offspring will carry the gene
>and pass it on to half of their progeny. As each generation mates, more females die, and the A. aegypti population should dwindle.
I can't post a link to the Nature article, bcoz the code-monké thinks it is "spam".