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Pandora's box: how GM mosquitos could have caused Brazil's microcephaly disaster
Tickell, Oliver http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2987024/pandoras_box_how_gm_mosquitos_could_have_caused_brazils_microcephaly_disaster.html
Publisher: The Ecologist
Date Written: 01/02/2016
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Article
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 precise area of Brazil where the microcephaly crisis is most acute.
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