In a victory for public health and the environment, the British biotech firm Oxitec and CSIRO have withdrawn their ...

A global health group breaks down exactly where the promise lies in using genetically modified mosquitoes to eliminate ...

Containers hold genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes before being released in Panama City, Panama, in September 2014. The fight against the Zika virus has a new weapon: the genetically ...

A genetically modified male mosquito named OX5034 has received both state and federal approval to be released into the Florida Keys now through 2022, against the objection of many local residents and ...

spreading malaria, it was announced today. Biologists Zhiqian Li and Ethan Bier from UCSD, and Yuemei Dong and George Dimopoulos from Johns Hopkins University, created a CRISPR-based gene-editing ...

A team of scientists, including researchers at UC San Diego, have developed a gene-editing method to block mosquitoes from spreading malaria, it was announced Wednesday. Biologists Zhiqian Li and ...

GENEVA (AP) - The World Health Organization says it may be necessary to use controversial methods like genetically modified mosquitoes to wipe out the insects that are spreading the Zika virus across ...

Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes are being released across Florida designed to stop the spread of deadly diseases ...

The Mosquito Research & Control Unit (MRCU) is operating with just one plane, officials have confirmed, as one is waiting on a new engine. Responding to public ...