Turning mosquitos against themselves

As reported previously (see here) there are several Israeli innovations developed to help reduce numbers of disease infecting mosquitos. Now Ben Gurion University scientists have discovered and activated bacteria in the male mosquito that is poisonous only to mosquito larvae.

https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/Pages/news/igem_2019.aspx

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