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Suara.com – Oxitec's biotech company is working with Bill Gates' property with his wife, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to create a genetically modified mosquito that will help fight the spread of malaria. Launched from CNETThe Gates Foundation donated $ 4 million, or about Rs 56.8 billion for this project.
Previously, the Gates Foundation has funded about US $ 2 billion (28 trillion rupees) to fight malaria and now the foundation is allocating more funds for new methods. Scientists call it "Friendly Mosquitoes", where they will genetically alter Aedes Aegypti's male mosquito in the Oxitec lab.
Later, this male mosquito mates with females in the wild.
The plan, the Oxitec method will release the engineered male mosquito to mate with wild female mosquitoes that have the ability to carry malaria disease. Their offspring will carry a self-limiting gene and female mosquitoes will die before they can bite humans, as only bitter mosquitoes bite.
This method is called will help limit the transmission of malaria because this gene can be continued up to 10 generations. Reported in addition to reducing malaria, with this gene can also reduce the Zika virus.
"Vector control has played an important role in reducing cases and deaths from malaria over the past 15 years." Genetically engineered mosquitoes are promising to control other vector-borne diseases, we hope to explore their potential. use with complementary interventions for malaria. Philip Welkhoff, director of the Malaria Control Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Oxitec mosquitoes are scheduled for field testing in the fall of 2020, but the project has garnered one of Friends of the Earth's rejections because they think the project will have an impact on the balance of the terrestrial ecosystem.
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