Release the sterile males: a new direction for mosquito population control technologies

由于40%以上的人类面临蚊媒疾病的风险，需要新的环境友好型蚊虫控制工具。我们已经开发了一种新的不育雄蚊种群抑制技术——既不使用辐射也不使用基因改造——从雄性和雌性幼虫中产生不育的成年雄蚊。我们将证明，将蚊子幼虫暴露在特定的RNA分子中可以产生合适的不育雄性成年蚊子，这可以在大型笼子试验中摧毁蚊子种群

With over 40% of humans at risk from mosquito-borne disease, new environmentally friendly mosquito control tools are required. We’ve developed a novel sterile male population suppression technology – using neither radiation nor genetic modification – to produce sterile adult male mosquitoes from both male and female larvae. We will show that exposing mosquito larvae to specific RNA molecules can produce fit sterile males adult mosquitoes that can crash mosquito populations in large cage trials