这些蚊子将在该国西部一个名叫巴纳的村庄释放,放蚊地点临近科学家的研究实验室。蚊子被释放后,科学家将对其密切监控10天,然后在接下来的一年里每月监控一次,希望能向监管部门呈现预期的结果。
The exact timing of the release depends on how quickly scientists can bring enough modified mosquitoes to adulthood, as well as local weather conditions.
释放蚊子的准确时间取决于科学家将足够的转基因蚊子培育成年的速度,以及当地的天气条件。
The experiment is the first step in a three phased program to develop “gene drive” mosquitoes - a project that has received $70 million of funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
这个培育“基因驱动”蚊子的项目分为三个阶段,这个实验是第一步。该项目从比尔和梅琳达·盖茨基金会获得了7000万美元(4.8亿元人民币)的资助。
The eventual hope is that male mosquitoes, modified so that 90 percent of their offspring are also male, will be released in the region. This would dramatically reduce the overall population as well as reducing malaria incidence, as it is the female mosquitoes which transmit the disease.
该项目的最终目标是在该地区释放这种新型转基因雄蚊,它们繁衍的后代90%为雄性。这将能大幅减少蚊子数量,并降低疟疾发病率,因为传播疟疾的是雌蚊子。
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