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BRAZIL-SCIENCE-HEALTH-DENGUE-MOSQUITO
TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Natalia Ramos
A researcher examines transgenic Aedes aegypti mosquitos kept in cages to collect their eggs, at a laboratory of biotech company Oxitec, in Campinas, 100 km from Sao Paulo, Brazil, on August 21, 2014. Oxitec produces genetically modified mosquitoes to fight dengue, a deadly tropical disease more prevalent in Brazil than anywhere else in the world. The factory developed a technology where eggs of Aedes aegypti receive microinjection of DNA with genes that produce a protein which prevents their offsprings from reaching adulthood and thus reducing the total population of transmitters of dengue. AFP PHOTO / NELSON ALMEIDA
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Campinas, São Paulo, BRAZIL |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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NELSON ALMEIDA |
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26 August 2014 |
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