{"id":87623,"date":"2019-02-10T15:44:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T23:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/red-eyed-mosquitoes-engineered-to-break-the-chain-of-zika-virus-transmission"},"modified":"2019-02-10T15:44:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T23:44:32","slug":"red-eyed-mosquitoes-engineered-to-break-the-chain-of-zika-virus-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/red-eyed-mosquitoes-engineered-to-break-the-chain-of-zika-virus-transmission","title":{"rendered":"Red-eyed mosquitoes engineered to break the chain of Zika virus transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/red-eyed-mosquitoes-engineered-to-break-the-chain-of-zika-virus-transmission.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists in Australia are looking at some pretty creative ways to tackle the Zika virus, which continues to pose a risk to millions across Africa, Asia and parts of the Americas. Following a trial last year where researchers were able to decimate disease-spreading mosquitos in the country\u2019s north, scientists have now demonstrated an engineering technique that renders the biggest transmitter of the virus largely immune to it, raising hopes of a new way to control the spread of Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/engineered-red-eyed-mosquito-zika\/58371\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/engineered-red-eyed-mosquito-zika\/58371\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in Australia are looking at some pretty creative ways to tackle the Zika virus, which continues to pose a risk to millions across Africa, Asia and parts of the Americas. Following a trial last year where researchers were able to decimate disease-spreading mosquitos in the country\u2019s north, scientists have now demonstrated an engineering technique [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}