6 months ago
GM mosquito trials raise concern in India
Bangalore/Chennai, July 23 - Experiments with genetically modified - mosquitoes planned in India by a British company in a move to find a way to control dengue fever have taken sections of the scientific community by surprise. 'I am trying to get full details about what is going on,' V.M. Katoch, secretary in the Department of Health Research and chief of the Indian Council of Medical Research - ... read more

Bangalore | 2 years ago
GM mosquitoes - boon or bane?
Bangalore, March 25 - Indian public health experts are not at all excited by the news that American scientists have created genetically modified mosquitoes to help fight malaria, saying it had been tried here before and abandoned as a failure.'We tried genetic control in the 1970s and abandoned it,' P.L. Joshi, director of the National Vector Borne Diseases Control Program in New Delhi, told IANS. ... read more

New York | 2 years ago
Genetically modified mosquitoes developed to fight malaria
New York, March 20 - US scientists have developed genetically modified - mosquitoes, which they say could help fight malaria that kill a million people worldwide each year.The GM mosquitoes developed by researcher Mauro Marrelli and his colleagues from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore are better able to survive than disease-carrying insects. The insect carries a gene that prevents infection b ... read more