{"id":25398,"date":"2019-11-16T14:33:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T03:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25398"},"modified":"2019-11-16T14:33:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T03:33:53","slug":"gene-hacking-mosquitoes-to-be-infertile-backfired-spectacularly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25398","title":{"rendered":"GENE-HACKING MOSQUITOES TO BE INFERTILE BACKFIRED SPECTACULARLY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"774\" height=\"404\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gene_Hacked_Mosquitos.jpg\" alt=\"GENE-HACKED MOSQUITOES\" class=\"wp-image-25399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gene_Hacked_Mosquitos.jpg 774w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gene_Hacked_Mosquitos-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gene_Hacked_Mosquitos-768x401.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On its surface, the plan was simple: gene-hack mosquitoes so their offspring immediately die, mix them with disease-spreading bugs in the wild, and watch the population drop off. Unfortunately, that didn\u2019t quite pan out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/gene-hack-mosquitoes-backfiring\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/gene-hack-mosquitoes-backfiring<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On its surface, the plan was simple: gene-hack mosquitoes so their offspring immediately die, mix them with disease-spreading bugs in the wild, and watch the population drop off. Unfortunately, that didn\u2019t quite pan out. https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/gene-hack-mosquitoes-backfiring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25400,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25398\/revisions\/25400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}