Genetically modified mosquitoes could be tested in California soon
The EPA also OK’d a Florida project for more trials. Now both states will decide next steps
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A worker adds water to a mosquito egg-rearing box, a step in raising male Aedes aegypti that are engineered to sabotage mosquito reproduction in the wild.
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