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Why tech giant Google is planning to release 32,00,00,000 mosquitoes in the USGoogle's parent company, Alphabet, plans to release 32 million specially treated mosquitoes in California and Florida. This initiative aims...- Wolbachia transinfection: China’s plan to mate lab mosquitoes with wild ones to tackle chikungunyaChina faces a chikungunya outbreak. Guangdong Province reports many new cases. Authorities implement mandatory blood tests. They also contr...
- Transforming mosquitoes from foes to friends in the battle against dengue fever; Everything explainedIn Honduras, where 10,000 people are known to be sickened by dengue each year, Doctors Without Borders is partnering with the mosquito prog...
- This tech giant is gearing up to remove mosquitoes around the worldIt’s unclear what would happen if the world’s disease-causing mosquitoes were done away with.
- 'Gene therapy, biotechnology can tackle deforestation and air pollution'Kolkata, June 19 (IANS) Gene therapy and biotechnology can be used to tackle environmental issues like deforestation and air pollution, whi...
- Google's machine-raised mosquitoes to shrink vector's numbersSan Francisco, July 23 (IANS) Google's parent company Alphabet and scientists in the US have teamed up to release 20 million machine-raised...
- India, Australia university to work on trials on novel dengue-control methodAs part of a Memorandum of Understanding signed here between ICMR and Monash University, the efficacy of the disease-control method will be...
- New 'super-infected' mosquitoes may help fight dengue, ZikaStudies show that when a mosquito bites an infected person, the ability of the virus to spread throughout the Wolbachia-infected insect's t...
- China-made mosquitoes to fight Zika virusThe team managed to lower the mosquito population by 90% last year using the same technique and helped containing dengue outbreak.
- A look at strategies adopted by other countries to combat dengueWHO, together with national and Cambodia authorities, is testing a long-lasting insecticide treated netting cover for household water stora...
- New way to prevent dengue fever foundDengue is a viral infection spread between humans by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Dengue causes flu-like symptoms, including intense headaches...
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