Biotech company to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in California

A biotech company with deep ties to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is about to release mosquitoes with synthetic DNA into California, supposedly to control the state’s mosquito population. Oxitec, a British biotechnology company specializing in the development of genetically engineered insects, recently said it has created one of its first genetically modified organisms by changing the … Continue reading Biotech company to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in California