GMO news related to Japan

23.03.2010 |

Unworkable but very cool - GE mosquitoes as flying vaccinators

A group of Japanese researchers has developed a mosquito that spreads vaccine instead of disease. Even the researchers admit, however, that regulatory and ethical problems will prevent the critters from ever taking wing—at least for the delivery of human vaccines. Scientists have dreamed up various ways to tinker with insects’ DNA to fight disease.

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