Genetically Modified Mosquitoes | HHMI BioInteractive Video

[@jameskelly1253]

Imagine breaking into that van and just finding a bunch of cases of mosquitoes

[@noelleista]

imagine driving that van...

[@kanye7107]

@@noelleista oh God, no...

[@keenantherush9047]

If we can make mosquitos live shorter Why can't we make dogs live longer

[@fivecartierbracelets]

@BonkEatsBoxers yeah no one cares about mosquitos they can die in fire and go to hell for all I care

[@waffiie]

@Bonk Springpants They already genetically operate on dogs in trials and other experiments.

[@tknode3065]

@Bonk Springpants Every dog breed is a genetically modified organism. Please read about GMO's

[@adhamabuirtaimeh7410]

@JustXjude it also costs a lot of money and only the rich can do it

[@inlovewithi]

Making dogs live longer would be billions of times more complicated, probably involving every gene in their genetic. Modifying one gene so that a mosquito would be dependent on something in particular, that's a hell of a lot easier.

[@K3v114]

It’s been 3 years. Would love an update.

[@westtwest2755]

Genetically engineered mosquitoes got the EPA approval today in Florida to start releasing them into the public.

[@amandagreco2545]

No she means it can cause animals to be infected with Covid... hellooo and once the animal is eaten ur get it to and it’s transferee from person to person

[@obviouslytwo4u]

Covid-19 is your update.

[@daveyboy8907]

Obviously now they are releasing them in Florida.. nuts

[@brada1803]

@@obviouslytwo4u agreed!

[@nesslig2025]

I hate mosquitos.

[@carolynkielma2014]

I'm not a fan either, but this is cool science.

[@gammert9089]

I hate those tooooo muuchhh🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫

[@zyptswarfare2118]

Who don't?

[@孫子]

And so we do 😂

[@sachinraghavan4556]

They're just like other animals. They need blood to survive and give birth. If we needed blood to thrive we can't blame ourselves.

[@carolynkielma2014]

this is AMAZING. I cannot wait to show my biotechnical engineering students this tomorrow!

[@carolynkielma2014]

It is added to the embryo via genetic engineering. Did I answer your question? Did you mean which specific organism? If so, that isn't mentioned here, but I know there have been other organisms that have been genetically modified using bioluminescent genes from the Aequorea victoria jellyfish or even a simple firefly !

[@SwitchedDreams]

This is anything but amazing.

[@nanallen1]

Something has gone awry. Here in the San Fernando Valley ( Northern L.A.) we have had NO rain for 6 months and no mosquitos for years. But 2 weeks ago, suddenly there were swarms of biting Aedes species. Everyone in every house in our neighborhood has multiple bites. Same story in Fullerton, Newbury Park, Porter Ranch, Chatsworth distant locations. People remember the exact day they arrived. These mosquitos travel only 650 feet from hatching area. So, the vector patterns are inconsistent with observation. WHO released millions of Aedes females?

[@jeylanimunye4952]

O

[@signature11.81]

See what you did there!

[@bestimaging9410]

Oh no

[@whatever5637]

2:57 😮 *Did a Mosquito Just Escaped in Front of Camera??*

[@alishagraham5221]

Lol yep

[@january7593]

It Gonna Start a New Pandemic. 😁

[@juno5578]

Prison break

[@armandoallendes.9078]

@@january7593 JAJAJA

[@CatNip379]

We're ALL DOOMED!!!

[@Pump-King]

Imagine airing out your house just to have a white van drive by and drop of a bucket of mosquitos right in front of your house

[@signature11.81]

I think we can go ahead and state the obvious that this plan backfired, I am literally being eaten alive watching this video, and writing this comment!

[@sueliexperienciasnarradas4023]

This project was a complete failure in Brazil. This past February we had millions of the most furious and agressive mosquitoes ever in the areas where oxitec released it in the past. It became a disaster and it didnt eliminate the mosquitoes. I live in Brazil 40 minutes from the failed OXITEX lab.

[@brada1803]

Wow! SORRY about that life changing news! I'm located in Southern California, USA - and currently I'm the only person that understands the use of GMO Mosquitoes can only be bad! The state of California (Mosquito Association) have been pushing GMO's on abatement organizations throughout the region - and my local Vector Control District have started progressive propaganda campaigns to convince residents of it's benefits. - please share your views (many thanks)

[@charlesmrader]

It can't have been that much of a failure, as they (Oxitec) are now selling kits for mosquito suppression all over Brazil.

[@AKiki-ct1ro]

Its warfare. The boom boom warfares are facades its biochemical, chemical, technological... etc warfares. They have been using mosquitos as weapons for ages.

[@thatmango3122]

0:54 I thought there was one in my room

[@CarolinianBlades]

Who else saw the clusters of mosquitoes and wanted to pimp slap them?

[@VideoJunkee]

Genetically modified mosquitoes… What could possibly go wrong?!?

[@roseguber3240]

Well, it did not work; 2018, and they are getting worse...all over the world

[@libertyordeath3695]

rose Guber that’s because they were never aloud to be released on a large scale

[@zigzagz_8423]

I don't and will never trust the Government.

[@erickpalacios8904]

What's the highest level of education you achieved? Just curious.

[@ethanwestlake6778]

@@erickpalacios8904 He died soon after he commented

[@AppleOfThineEye]

Look, I don't like the government, but as soon as you start distrusting it, you betray respect and show that you yourself are not deserving of it. By all means, point me to the study that proves this method insufficient or harmful to humans, or put your tinfoil hat on.

[@wingsofpurityofficial4031]

This biotech company isn't the government, but ok

[@crispychris18]

Who’s here for bio class

[@IamOCJ0510]

I did and I hate the female mosquitos cuz they always makes diseases but I only trust Male Mosquitoes cuz they’re harmless and doesn’t make diseases they only use nectar for plants to grow and I appreciate it. Male Mosquitoes? YES👍 Female Mosquitoes? NOO👎

[@Rwi-wk1pd]

@@IamOCJ0510 😂

[@mahrukhjavaid4183]

Can i get the references article or this study plz

[@biointeractive]

doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003864

[@mahrukhjavaid4183]

Thank you 🙂

[@CherryTomato879]

Mosquitoes are our enemies!!!

[@donpettyandthespacefakers1798]

whatever these people do you can count on the fact it is not for the greater good of the human race i don’t know wtf is going with these things but i can pretty much guarantee it ain’t good

[@brada1803]

Wild Mosquitoes would preferred wild Mosquitoes!

[@Efeste.ban.]

The mosquito noises irk me so bad I couldn’t even finish the dang video

[@y_p7]

These guys are angels, thank god they exist

[@smrutirekhasamantray7886]

Amazing video 👌

[@daniellepavone5598]

Zika a Rockefeller patent

[@heartcomedy5]

So how’s it doing now you might ask...well Oxitec is going to release these male mosquitoes in Florida this year and Texas next year, however Environmentalists have their sounds and worries about how this might effect the entire ecosystem of animals and insects.

[@legendman3834]

What if they evolve

[@roni1976]

And they will do just that!!! Smh

[@t1zbot897]

did you even watch the video? They are dependent on the Tetracycline.

[@t1zbot897]

@@roni1976 did you even watch the video? They are dependent on the Tetracycline.

[@solsystem1342]

Ugh, the offspring die before becoming adults and no survivors=no evolution

[@fruit032]

​@@solsystem1342you really believe that?!?

[@MrAlessio111564]

I just witnessed millions of mosquitos falling out of the sky, I ran to my car and had about 30 on me, my whole car was covered , I think there coming from the chemtrail clouds, I never seen so many in my 52 years

[@kohbyagborg1595]

what ru talkin about

[@rakkstabber1536]

Dylan Poski dying mosquitos.

[@mitchhardy1]

Chemtrail clouds are basically ice, what are you talking about?

[@AppleOfThineEye]

Alessio you need to stop drinking.

[@RC-nv8gc]

The same way they can make a gene in a mosi relient on a synthetic chem in a lab; they do that to our food crops

[@RC-nv8gc]

Maybe even with people in medication

[@solsystem1342]

@@RC-nv8gc what? How would that even work? Have you studied genetic engineering?

[@scpfoundation7088]

So the only solution is to make the mosquitos extinct?

[@solsystem1342]

The ones that cause terrible diseases, yes. That is the best solution we have at the moment.

[@sawlovesyou52]

The people of England went to the streets protesting Monsanto and GMO's. Monsanto said, "I do not know what your problem (to the people of England) is, Americans have been eating GMO produce for over 5 years." We had no idea! We heard that Monsanto found a way to increase productivity of food and were using it to feed the hungry in Africa. Japan said, "we will watch the children of American." And did not allow Monsanto into Japan. This was 20 years ago. A woman in India fought Monsanto because of the Round-up. Those people were promised more produce and bigger profit. But they soon found out that using the other products like round-up proved too expensive to make the profit that was promised. What they call gullible ..... we call trust. IS THERE ANYTHING OUT THERE TO BE TRUSTED...... Time to get back to our roots. In God we Trust ...... appears the world is in trouble in many many ways. ......THERE IS AN ENDING ......CAN YOU SEE IT !!! CAN YOU FEEL IT !!! We are surrounded by darkness .... it is not fake news .... it is no news. I was never bothered by mosquitoes over 60 years .....guess the Texas GMO mosquitoes are in Oklahoma ....I am being attacked as never before!!! I love good science, but many can make things worse. EDUCATED IDIOTS !!! My father spoke these words when I was very young ....more than once. Now I am well aware that these words are very true. We put too much on theory. Now, a team of independent researchers analyzing an early trial of Oxitec’s technology is raising alarm-and drawing fire from the firm-with a report that some offspring of the GM mosquitoes survived and produced offspring that also made it to sexual maturity. As a result, local mosquitoes inherited pieces of the genomes of the GM mosquitoes, the team revealed last week in Scientific Reports. There’s no evidence that these hybrids endanger humans more than the wild mosquitoes or that they’ll render Oxitec’s strategy ineffective, both the paper’s authors and the company agree. “The important thing is something unanticipated happened,” says population geneticist Jeffrey Powell of Yale University, who did the study with Brazilian researchers. “When people develop transgenic lines or anything to release, almost all of their information comes from laboratory studies. … Things don’t always work out the way you expect.”

[@felinefokus]

My great grandmother who is 90 told me that mosquitoes never came for her. While they have been a nuisance for me. Especially when I vacationed in Mexico. The amount of bites were horrid. Maybe my gma has a blood type that they don't feed on 🤷🏾‍♀️ who knows

[@gamingsquid4111]

uhhn those zika viruse bugs are in my house there attacking bell gardens

[@CollegemomLynn]

That wasn't caused by Zika! It was caused by the poisonous toxic Monsanto chemical pesticides that are known to cause these horrific malformations!

[@lnvlzdfnglkfglshgdsfksjbfs7147]

Why has that not happened to American babies given that Monsanto products are used and distributed in America too? Not to mention, where is your research?

[@rakkstabber1536]

And your research?

[@brada1803]

SORRY - Wastewater treatment plants and other septic sites would impact those modified mosquitoes!

[@blueberryies7930]

Imagine everyone stuck in africa and A Zombie mosquito outbreak

[@CatNip379]

OH GOD PLEASE NO000O!!

[@rabeechowdhury]

Yay my chances of Zika has greatly lowered due to me living in Canada.

[@giovannifranco2131]

Original coronavirus

[@alexmiller6537]

oh no not brazil

[@UrbantopiaNetwork]

I'm itchy...

[@ImmortalOnenesss]

@Joseph .N that's spirit.

[@justkon1789]

UPDATE PLEASE

[@phleushi]

the way the just release the male mosquitoes like nothing

[@biointeractive]

Male mosquitoes don't bite.

[@yuvrajwalia1797]

@@biointeractive Can you please make an update on the video? I have heard that the project may have it a couple of setbacks. It mated with some other mosquitoes, whose offspring developed genes resistant to the lethality gene inserted in the genetically modified mosquitoes. www.livescience.com/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-create-hybrids.html

[@biointeractive]

I will pass this along but will note that the paper that made those conclusions now has an editor's note attached to it: "Editor's Note: readers are alerted that the conclusions of this paper are subject to criticisms that are being considered by editors. A further editorial response will follow the resolution of these issues. "

[@phleushi]

biointeractive ah i didn’t hear that part

[@silvex4723]

Yes I was just chatting with a friend tonight. For whatever reason they have only just now reached the epidemic proportions here in San Diego. Don't know if it's been mentioned on local news or if the public is aware. God knows ppl are so confused these days. Damn one just need me as I'm writing this. Anyway was saying to my friend damn mosquitoes are like I haven't seen in the twenty two years I've lived her. The most his I've gotten in a summer was maybe five total. And that was from the only two I had seen. Then I stated how bizarre I thought it was, that the weather was no different than in last year's and how we've had no rain. Yes it's my opinion that something malicious is at play. The elite don't just talk about population reduction like they are gods they are fully engaged in it and have been for a long time. But to know the real agenda or need look no further than what is believed in the end of days by the books of Jewish doctrine. Mutually validated by the protocols of the learned elders of Zion. If you can find anything about it that they havent corrupted. It's like they say want to know who owns you? Who can't you criticized in any way? I guess we'll all be getting the vaccine one way or another. Seriously it is safety cause I know they have been interested in weaponizing in a specific genetic code or sequence meaning the mosquitoes would only bite a certain type of ppl.

[@Kidderrgaming]

They're making mosquitoes racist?? My tip, start smoking cigarettes. Mosquitoes hate cigarette smoke and people with bad circulation.

[@bradley4465]

What jargon are you speaking, man?

[@lucastong356]

Vídeo bacano

[@wildyoda2931]

I hate mosquitoes more than the next guy but i don't want to see them all gone. They're apart of this world just like we are and i don't think people should just wipe them out for our own benefit because there're organisms out their that depend on mosquitoes also. This will create a chain reaction haven't we humans killed off enough organisms as it stands? why don't we find someway else to deal with the problem.

[@homeyjeromy]

Its estimated that Mosquitoes have killed half of everyone who has ever lived by transmitting diseases. That's over 50 billion people in human history, and over 1 million are killed per year in modern times. They also spread diseases in other mammals as well so humans are not the only ones being effected. At worst it will hurt the population of some spiders, and hardly anything relies on mosquitoes as their only food source, so it's unlikely to drive anything extinct. Yet even if it does, it's a hell of a better price to pay than the price we are paying now. If you lived in an area prone to transmitted diseases, I guarantee you wouldn't be asking anyone to save the mosquitoes...

[@jjk2one]

For starters, the bats need the mosquitoes. Bat dung is by far the superior garden fertilizer. Bats eat bad insects. Nelson your numbers are greatly exaggerated and you are greatly misinformed. As technology keeps going up life and this earth keep going down. "they" keep telling you technology will save the world and the people keep believing them. If you knew what is really happening from biotech you couldn't handle it.

[@jenw4629]

This technique targets only two species of mosquitoes, the ones which pass along Dengue, Zika, etc.

[@globalko]

That's is one argument. However mosquitoes transmit, dengue, malaria, yellow fever and more which kills millions of people every year.

[@AppleOfThineEye]

@@jjk2one You're a nut.

[@KeithRichardson-yv4iv]

One of the investors in this place also has big money in vaccine shares.. guess who.

[@muhammadusman5535]

Mosquitos are cutting me and I'm watching it calmly . 😑

[@reasonpaudyal9196]

Why am I not scared of mosquitoes when I know they can kill? Oh wait.. Phew.. I have a an app that notifies me.

[@CatNip379]

There's an app to let you know that there are mosquitoes in the area?

[@fruit032]

​@@CatNip379 right lol what is the app called?!?

[@zacharyyoung9520]

I don't like those flying leeches

[@johnnyjoevazquez]

This was such a bad idea! Why!?!

[@AppleOfThineEye]

So many conspiracy theorists in the comments, geez!

[@markmcgowan8935]

Your dumb

[@ivehadsomegoodburgersinmyt9010]

What's wrong with questioning the status quo?

[@solsystem1342]

@@ivehadsomegoodburgersinmyt9010 well, when people start freaking out because we're disrupting "God's plan" by killing invasive mosquitoes... My faith in humanity starts to decline rapidly.

[@shmeek7429]

She was holding back on saying human race* at 2:50

[@jessicaprintke4973]

The male does bite not as likely but will. And females choose mates not the other way

[@solsystem1342]

What? Why would male mosquitoes bite animals? They don't need the energy to lay eggs which is the whole reason female mosquitoes bite in the first place...

[@Lizuma]

Males dont bite at all, dont know what you're talking about

[@TJtheHuman]

I wonder if the offspring of wild males are becoming inbred.

[@charlesmrader]

Probably, so what.

[@augustocamargo6051]

brutal

[@andrecarazo2022]

Zagaduba

[@sahilsaghir5163]

Wowwwwwwwwwwwwww

[@kobidobidog]

Don't do anything that Bill Gates wants.

[@seapearltoo1]

BINGO!!!

[@pahakuutti]

Can also spread many dangerous diseases. Playing god is a dangerous thing.

[@princessbre]

That's not true, males do not transmit disease because only the female bites other animals. They're releasing essentially sterile males into the wild which will mess with reproduction and hopefully decrease the population with the decrease of offspring since they'll die before reaching adulthood. The females themselves are only at maturity to reproduce (and unfortunately spread disease), but if they cannot do that because of blank shots from males that should help to decrease the amount of dangerous diseases. These creatures are nothing but pests and this is a big step to help us not harm.

[@rakkstabber1536]

But it clearly said these were male mosquitos which do not bite. Watch the entire thing before you come up with a bs conclusion.

[@amandagreco2545]

My mom never gets bit. We joke the mosquitos don’t like her. When I get bit it’s just a few but bad! I was pregnant and went camping for first time been but wayyyyyy to many times!!! My kid came Out with 99 percent larger than average head. And it is not a lead or or anything! 😱

[@1231dre]

Playing God won’t end well!

[@daveyboy8907]

Look at Florida

[@arcturus9366]

In that case we have been playing god to a large extent already, genetically modified mosquitoes to self destruct is just a drop in the bucket to what we have already done. But you wouldn't care you bible thumping ford driving air polluting essential oil using white picket fence boomer

[@solsystem1342]

Please we already modify plants and animals to our liking. Do you think we found dairy cows and poodles in the wild? We're just much better at it now.

[@jeansaliun8932]

Yep, yet some people think this is great.

[@CatNip379]

IT NEVER HAS! I MEAN WHY CAN'T PEOPLE LEARN FROM THE MOVIES THAT THEY CREATE ESPECIALLY HOLLYWOOD WHEN THEY CREATE DINOSAURS GUESS WHAT HAPPENS TO THE HUMAN RACE THEY GO EXTINCT YOU CANNOT BRING BACK THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEANT TO BE WE ARE A TOP OF THE LINE PREDATOR ANYTHING THAT IS CREATED THAT GOES ABOVE US OR IS DESIGNED TO BE BETTER FROM MAKING THINGS WORSE BUT IN REALITY IT MAKES EVEN THINGS MORE BAD GUESS WHAT HAPPENS TO THE POPULATION OH WE DIDN'T KNOW IS THERE TERMS YEAH YOU DID YOU DIDN'T REALLY JUST THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU JUST QUICKLY PUSH THE AGENDA AND THEN WHEN S*** HITS THE FAN YOU'RE LIKE OH WELL LESS PEOPLE IN THE WORLD BECAUSE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE A 50 MILLION DECREASE AND THEN NEXT YEAR OF 2025 SO LET'S CREATE MORE CRAP FOR EVERYONE TO STRESS OVER CUZ WE DON'T WANT ALL THESE HUNGRY MONGERING STRESS EATING FART ESCAPING HUMANS AROUND ANYMORE CUZ THEY'RE JUST TOO MUCH!

[@notafakename7477]

I got bite by one a couple of days ago •-•

[@rakkstabber1536]

I’ve never gotten bit by some before. Just been bothered by them.

[@dimitriblyat5505]

i guess zombie Mosquitoes

[@sachinraghavan4556]

Isn't it ironic that they're trying to get you to feel sorry for a human baby but they experiment on hundreds of mosquito larvae?

[@AppleOfThineEye]

No, it's not. Why would you have sympathy for mosquitoes?

[@amaan489]

@@danilolquerojr. 😂

[@danchan7116]

Too bad it didn’t work..

[@arniegonzales9092]

aa🍯

[@_wheat856]

Anyone here from in a nutshell

[@MelissaStarfall]

Jestingwheat856 no seems like just you