Tentative, but fascinating links you've found chap. I bookmarked it for further research, good work.
Tentative, but fascinating links you've found chap. I bookmarked it for further research, good work.
So bare with me.
Hopefully someone with more of a biotech knowledge than me should tell me why I'm wrong..
"Self-limiting” genes
We all know this covid vaccine is gene therapy. We know it's got some sinister purpose....
Check out this article
"Oxitec’s mosquitoes, for instance, are genetically altered to pass what the company calls “self-limiting” genes to their offspring; when released GM males breed with wild female mosquitoes, the resulting generation does not survive into adulthood, reducing the overall population."
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/release-gmo-mosquitoes-florida-keys/
Interesting article discussing the technology
"In male heterogametic species the Y chromosome is transmitted solely from fathers to sons, and is selected for based only on its impacts on male fitness. This fact can be exploited to develop efficient pest control strategies that use Y-linked editors to disrupt the fitness of female descendants. With simple population genetic and dynamic models we show that Y-linked editors can be substantially more efficient than other self-limiting strategies and, while not as efficient as gene drive approaches, are expected to have less impact on non-target populations with which there is some gene flow. Efficiency can be further augmented by simultaneously releasing an autosomal X-shredder construct, in either the same or different males."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6083257/
So I looked up this company and what do you know....
"Oxitec established partnerships with large agricultural industry[18] leaders and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,[19] which helped to advance Oxitec's 2nd generation technology".
So bare with me.
Hopefully someone with more of a biotech knowledge than me should tell me why I'm wrong..
"Self-limiting” genes
We all know this covid vaccine is gene therapy. We know it's got some sinister purpose....
Check out this article
"Oxitec’s mosquitoes, for instance, are genetically altered to pass what the company calls “self-limiting” genes to their offspring; when released GM males breed with wild female mosquitoes, the resulting generation does not survive into adulthood, reducing the overall population."
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/release-gmo-mosquitoes-florida-keys/
Interesting article discussing the technology
"In male heterogametic species the Y chromosome is transmitted solely from fathers to sons, and is selected for based only on its impacts on male fitness. This fact can be exploited to develop efficient pest control strategies that use Y-linked editors to disrupt the fitness of female descendants. With simple population genetic and dynamic models we show that Y-linked editors can be substantially more efficient than other self-limiting strategies and, while not as efficient as gene drive approaches, are expected to have less impact on non-target populations with which there is some gene flow. Efficiency can be further augmented by simultaneously releasing an autosomal X-shredder construct, in either the same or different males."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6083257/
So I looked up this company and what do you know....
"Oxitec established partnerships with large agricultural industry[18] leaders and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,[19] which helped to advance Oxitec's 2nd generation technology".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxitec
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