In February of 1967, German biologist Hannes Laven hiked to a village 16 miles north of Yangon, Myanmar. He carried with him 100 mosquitoes from Fresno, California - 50 males that had been infected with a bacteria called Wolbachia , and 50 females that had not.
In February of 1967, German biologist Hannes Laven hiked to a village 16 miles north of Yangon, Myanmar. He carried with him 100 mosquitoes from Fresno, California - 50 males that had been infected with a bacteria called Wolbachia , and 50 females that had not.
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Sometimes proteins do a lot more than we expect. Dab2, for example, has long been linked to cancer.
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