This year’s TIME 100 is, as always, full of personalities whose influence is at once lasting and admirable, and who have …
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Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Released in Malaysian Forest
A government-run institute in Malaysia announced this week that it had released 6000 genetically modified mosquitoes into an uninhabited patch of forest in December to combat dengue fever.
The experiment, which is now over, was aimed at controlling the local mosquito population by having altered male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes mate …
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Health: Using Genetic Engineering to Make Chickens Flu-Proof
On the main page I have a piece on a fascinating Science study that showed how scientists were able to genetically engineer chickens to make them virtually unable to pass on avian flu. That could have major implications for influenza—birds can spread new flu viruses to human beings—and for veterinary disease, if researchers can …