Health Alerts

Australian researcher and leader of the project Dr Maciej Maselko, CSIRO Synthetic Biology Future Science Fellow advised that he and a team of researchers have commenced on a research project, in which mosquito colonies carrying viruses such as zika, dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever will not be able to reproduce. The researchers genetically modified male mosquitoes and then allowed them to mate with female mosquitoes who transmit the diseases, producing no offspring, or producing sterile males. Read more.