# Modified Mosquitos - Yea or Nay? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 20, 2020, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modified-mosquitos-yea-or-nay/918526 "2020-08-20T00:25:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![mozchron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mozchron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mozchron)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modified-mosquitos-yea-or-nay/918526/14 "2020-08-20T20:11:56Z")
Here is what I wrote on this topic 5 years ago. My opinion hasn’t changed. This is a good idea. > [@GMO Mosquitos - what say you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmo-mosquitos-what-say-you/711361/10): > > This is my primary research area. Been working on GM mosquito and similar strategies for the last (almost) 17 years. There are a number of GM and GM-like vector-borne disease control strategies currently being tested in the field. This is the Oxitech version, called “Release of Insects carrying a Dominant Lethal”, or RIDL. It was developed by my my colleague Dr. Luke Alphey at Oxford University way back in 2000(in fruit flies, took a few more years to get it to work in mosquitoes). Luke started… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modified-mosquitos-yea-or-nay/918526)._