"Questions remain about whether the genetically modified mosquitoes will have unintended effects on local mosquitoes, animals or the ecosystem at large, Live Science previously reported."
I applaud that the article mentions this: it's one of several concerns I have when I read the title of the story. However, not even one bit of educated speculation of what might happen when nature adapts and these genetic tinkerings -- along with the introduction of mosquito DNA from other continents -- produce a version of mosquito we've never seen before, one with potentially disastrous consequences. I would think that once scientists discover mosquitos adapting in the wild and creating new hybrids they didn't expect that they would call time-out and go back to the lab to study rather than releasing new batches elsewhere to see what happens.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 16.7 ms ] threadI applaud that the article mentions this: it's one of several concerns I have when I read the title of the story. However, not even one bit of educated speculation of what might happen when nature adapts and these genetic tinkerings -- along with the introduction of mosquito DNA from other continents -- produce a version of mosquito we've never seen before, one with potentially disastrous consequences. I would think that once scientists discover mosquitos adapting in the wild and creating new hybrids they didn't expect that they would call time-out and go back to the lab to study rather than releasing new batches elsewhere to see what happens.