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Genetically modified mosquitoes clear key hurdle for Key West test
Miami Herald ^ | Mar 11, 2016 | Jenny Staletovich

Posted on 03/11/2016 11:26:51 AM PST by Ray76

The release of genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys cleared a significant hurdle Friday when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced they pose no significant environmental danger.

The preliminary findings, to be published in the Federal Register, will be open for public comment for the next 30 days. But the initial federal review likely clears the way for a long-delayed field trial by British producer Oxitec in the tiny affluent neighborhood of Key Haven a mile east of Key West.

Pitched as a safer, more affordable way of battling Oxitec’s modified male mosquitoes are engineered to produce offspring with a kill-switch, or defective gene that kills them. The offspring also bear a florescent marker gene so larvae can be identified when inspectors conduct mosquito counts and gauge the progress of the program.

(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: frankenskeeters; geneticmodifications; mosquitoes
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Releasing into the wild is not a "field trial", it is "go live" with no possibility of rollback.
1 posted on 03/11/2016 11:26:51 AM PST by Ray76
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Caitlyn Mosquitoes?


2 posted on 03/11/2016 11:29:10 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (As always, /s is implicitly assumed. Unless explicitly labled /not s. Saves keystrokes.)
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To: Ray76

Yup.nothing can go wrong with this.


3 posted on 03/11/2016 11:29:41 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (GOPe - Enriching the consultant class while selling out their constituents.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Always said that’s killer bees came from a manipulated lot..


4 posted on 03/11/2016 11:30:37 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Ray76

Didn’t I see this in a movie..................Doesn’t end well...........................


5 posted on 03/11/2016 11:30:46 AM PST by Red Badger (The Left doesn't like him and the Right doesn't like him, so he must be the right guy for the job...)
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To: Scrambler Bob

This is how the Zombie apocalypse begins...


6 posted on 03/11/2016 11:31:17 AM PST by Hurricane Andrew (There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

7 posted on 03/11/2016 11:32:03 AM PST by Red Badger (The Left doesn't like him and the Right doesn't like him, so he must be the right guy for the job...)
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so mosquitoes take over the general population of mosquitoes.

They all die off.

The animals that prey on mosquitoes no longer have prey, and so they die off OR start eating other species.

And so on, until everything up the food chain no longer has its prey. so they turn to humans

What could go wrong?

(would make a great sci-fi movie, huh?)


8 posted on 03/11/2016 11:32:11 AM PST by Mr. K (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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Male mosquitoes are harmless.

Only the females require a blood meal after mating to lay eggs.


9 posted on 03/11/2016 11:32:20 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Liberals say we need more government to protect the environment from evil corporations.

But in practice, as long as it’s “for science”, the FDA will rubber stamp any retarded plan to play God that biologists come up with.


10 posted on 03/11/2016 11:32:33 AM PST by 20yearsofinternet (Border: Close it. Illegals: Deport. Muslims: Ban 'em. Economy: Liberate it. PC: Kill it. Trump 2016)
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11 posted on 03/11/2016 11:34:58 AM PST by Red Badger (The Left doesn't like him and the Right doesn't like him, so he must be the right guy for the job...)
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To: Ray76

This is how every Grade-B Sci-Fi movie starts...


12 posted on 03/11/2016 11:35:17 AM PST by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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Anti-Zika GMO Mosquitos Injected with Herpes and E-Coli

https://youtu.be/8BsQ3_-vxOM

It’s a Heads Up! Be safe.!


13 posted on 03/11/2016 11:35:41 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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Long time ago the gov’t got Kudzu from Japan (or wherever) to stop erosion in US.

Brother.


14 posted on 03/11/2016 11:38:04 AM PST by ncpatriot
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Tonight's feature on Monster Chiller Horror Theater is The Genetically Modified British Killer Mosquitoes That Attacked Key West


15 posted on 03/11/2016 11:38:26 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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“Releasing into the wild is not a “field trial”, it is “go live” with no possibility of rollback.”

Bingo. FDA are nothing but sellouts!

How can they know there is “no danger” of introducing new genes into the wild? We have no ability to test for every possible interaction they will have in the environment.

Heck, I build buildings for a living and things routinely come up that we never thought of during design. Even in the simplest looking projects that get reviewed by designers with hundreds of combined years experience.

The biosphere is WAY more complex than any man-made structure and should not be messed with!


16 posted on 03/11/2016 11:39:14 AM PST by varyouga
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Personally I welcome our new mosquito overlords.


17 posted on 03/11/2016 11:42:05 AM PST by FourtySeven (47)
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To: Mr. K

Not sure anything lives exclusively on mosquitoes. There’s a lot of bug eaters out there, but they tend to eat everything they can get, and mosquitoes aren’t exactly the meatiest bug on anybody’s menu.


18 posted on 03/11/2016 11:44:38 AM PST by discostu (This unit not labeled for individual sale)
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To: Ray76

The Sierra Club will be in court later to plead the case for the die off of song birds.


19 posted on 03/11/2016 11:46:39 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (GOPe/MSM - "When we want your opinion, we will give it to you.")
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Bad Idea Genes


20 posted on 03/11/2016 11:48:23 AM PST by madconservative
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