Pandora's box: how GM mosquitos could have caused Brazil's microcephaly diasaster

The Ecologist
Feb 1, 2016, 5:11 am27 pts
In Brazil's microcephaly epidemic, one vital question remains unanswered: how did the Zika virus suddenly learn how to disrupt the development of human embryos? The answer may lie in a sequence of 'jumping DNA' used to engineer the virus's mosquito vector - and released into the wild four years ago in the…

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