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Wednesday July 11st, 2018 day edition

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(CNN) In an experiment with global implications, Australian scientists have successfully wiped out more than 80% of disease-carrying mosquitoes in trial locations across north Queensland.

The experiment, conducted by scientists from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) and James Cook University (JCU), targeted Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which spread deadly diseases such as dengue fever and Zika.

In JCU laboratories, researchers bred almost 20 million mosquitoes, infecting males with bacteria that made them sterile.

The sterile male mosquitoes didn't bite or spread disease, but when they mated with wild females, the resulting eggs didn't hatch, and the population crashed.

Although the process used in the experiment, called the Sterile Insect Technique, has been around since the 1950s, it has never been used for mosquitoes like the Aedes aegypti.

"The main ecological impact would be to restore the ecosystem to how it was before the mosquitoes invaded," according to Verily.

The experiment has been limited to north Queensland for now, but Verily may hold further field trials, the organization said. »

The FCC wants to charge you $225 to review your complaints

Authored by theverge.com

“At a time when consumers are highly dissatisfied with their communications companies, this abrupt change in policy troubles us,” the congressmen wrote.

The Commission’s docket called this move an attempt at streamlining and consolidating “the procedural rules governing formal complaints.”

Without the FCC addressing those issues, consumers would be left to wrangle with massive telecommunication corporations on their own, or pay a hefty fee to the FCC. »

Black farmers were intentionally sold fake seeds in Memphis, law - WMC Action News 5 - Memphis, Tennessee

Authored by wmcactionnews5.com

Despite above average rainfall, experienced black farmers saw limited soybean yield from the Stine seeds during the 2017 harvest.

They say the tests show the seeds sold to the black farmers were not certified Stine seeds.

Stine Seed Company President Myron Stine issued the following statement addressing the lawsuit and the allegations his company intentionally sold bad seeds to black farmers:. »

It's Official, Canada Is Making Cosmetic Testing On Animals Illegal

Authored by mtlblog.com

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