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- The Researchers from California have developed CRISPR-based system to safely restrain mosquito vectors via sterilization.
- pgSIT is a new scalable genetic control system that uses a CRISPR-based approach to engineer deployable mosquitoes that can suppress populations.
- It alters genes linked to male fertility — creating sterile offspring — and female flight in Aedes aegypti.
- Aedes aegypti, the mosquito species, is responsible for spreading wide-ranging diseases including dengue fever, chikungunya, and Zika.
- CRISPR technology is basically a gene-editing technology that can be used for the purpose of altering genetic expression or changing the genome of an organism.
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