368: Millions Of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes To Be Released In The US

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The US could soon be swarming with genetically altered mosquitoes after the Environmental Protection Agency approved a plan to test the insects. Biotechnology company Oxitec has developed genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in hopes to ward off their natural, disease-causing counterparts.  Back in 2010, Microsoft founder Bill Gates poured $4 million into a project to create killer mosquitoes that destroy each other through sex.  What could possibly go wrong?

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