In plastic and glass containers thousands of mosquitoes are hatching in a British “mosquito factory.” On strips of brown paper there are hundreds of thousands of little black mosquito eggs.

“Here we practice birth control for mosquitoes,” says Hadyn Parry, CEO of Oxitec, a British bio-research company that makes genetically modified mosquito eggs. The eggs produce sterile male mosquitoes, incapable of fertilizing the females. [Read more…]