Target Malaria begins a first experiment on the release of sterile mosquitoes in Africa

By EdoArad @ 2019-07-05T04:58 (+9)

This is a linkpost to https://targetmalaria.org/target-malaria-proceeded-with-a-small-scale-release-of-genetically-modified-sterile-male-mosquitoes-in-bana-a-village-in-burkina-faso/

Target Malaria is a not-for-profit research consortium that aims to develop and share new, cost-effective and sustainable genetic technologies to modify mosquitoes and reduce malaria transmission. They are funded by the Gates Foundation and by Open Phil.

aarongertler @ 2019-07-08T23:08 (+4)

Thanks for posting the article!

It may be a relatively non-controversial piece of simple "good news", but it's still really valuable to have on the Forum; it can be really time-consuming to aggregate EA news (I compile the EA Newsletter, so this is often annoying to me), and the more the Forum becomes a good "default place to see what's new", the more useful it will be.

edoarad @ 2019-07-05T05:01 (+2)

Thanks Vox's Future Perfect newsletter for curating this :)