Last week, New Atlas reported that a pest control experiment in Brazil involving genetically-modified mosquitoes had gone wrong, with new genes mixing into the native population of the insects. This, ...

“Our Mosquito Project Takes Flight,” reads a baby-blue billboard off US-1 in the Florida Keys, alongside an image of an insect tracing a path in the shape of a heart. Sponsored by the local mosquito ...

This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This spring, the biotechnology company Oxitec plans to release genetically modified, or ...

PIRACICABA, Brazil — From its gleaming, year-old factory in this southeast Brazilian city, Oxitec, a British biotech firm, has built a thriving business releasing tens of millions of genetically ...

It took a decade for British biotech firm Oxitec to program a self-destruct switch into mosquitoes. Perfecting that genetic technology, timed to kill the insects before they could spread diseases like ...