We’re trying to stop bad mosquitoes by raising and releasing good ones
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Re: We’re trying to stop bad mosquitoes by raising and releasing good ones
#2*Verily Debug Project (title is currently "Google Debug Project")
Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences before the Alphabet split-up) is a sister company to Google. This isn't Google, and it's not code, but a project to help eliminate mosquitoes by a bioscience company.
Re: We’re trying to stop bad mosquitoes by raising and releasing good ones
#3Will we eventually see resistance to the bacteria the way that bacteria evolve to be resistant to antibiotics?
Re: We’re trying to stop bad mosquitoes by raising and releasing good ones
#4*Verily Debug Project (title is currently "Google Debug Project") Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences before the Alphabet split-up) is a sister company to Google. This isn't Google, and it's not code, but a project to help eliminate mosquitoes by a bioscience company.
Your right it's a sister of Google not a Google project, maybe a title change to "Alphabet" instead of "Google". Especially since I clicked it thinking it had something to do with code. :P
Re: We’re trying to stop bad mosquitoes by raising and releasing good ones
#5I'm sure this will end well..
Re: We’re trying to stop bad mosquitoes by raising and releasing good ones
#6I'm sure this will end well..
What is your concern?
Re: We’re trying to stop bad mosquitoes by raising and releasing good ones
#7How is "Can't breed" a good thing? Something to do with
> good bugs ... will stop bad ones from reproducing
? Are mosquitos monogamous (or do they just get really tired after sex, or do they transmit the infection to others...) If "good bugs" don't bite, I'd have thought you'd want them to reproduce as much as possible, so long as not-biting was hereditary. A non-reproducing population can never out-compete the reproducing rest of the species.
Re: We’re trying to stop bad mosquitoes by raising and releasing good ones
#8I'm sure this will end well..
What is your concern?
So many potential unexpected consequences. Most attempts at killing off a pest have resulted in all kinds of negative shifts in the environment that end up being worse, just look at the Great Leap Forward in China. There are examples worldwide of this. Ecology is just too networked and interdependent to be able to easily engineer.
Re: We’re trying to stop bad mosquitoes by raising and releasing good ones
#9*Verily Debug Project (title is currently "Google Debug Project") Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences before the Alphabet split-up) is a sister company to Google. This isn't Google, and it's not code, but a project to help eliminate mosquitoes by a bioscience company.
Your right it's a sister of Google not a Google project, maybe a title change to "Alphabet" instead of "Google". Especially since I clicked it thinking it had something to do with code. :P
They do present it quite ostensibly as a programming project tho i.e: the steps mentioned here http://debugproject.com/how/
Re: We’re trying to stop bad mosquitoes by raising and releasing good ones
#10How is "Can't breed" a good thing? Something to do with > good bugs ... will stop bad ones from reproducing ? Are mosquitos monogamous (or do they just get really tired after sex, or do they transmit the infection to others...) If "good bugs" don't bite, I'd have thought you'd want them to reproduce as much as possible, so long as not-biting was hereditary. A non-reproducing population can never out-compete the repro…
This is all explained in the video. The process has nothing to do with genetics; the good bugs don't bite because they're all male (the females are weeded out by the scientists), and male mosquitoes never bite. And they can't breed because of a bacteria related to healthy egg development. The good bugs still mate (with bad bugs, since there are no good female bugs), they still fertilize the eggs, but the eggs don't work.