Fighting bugs with genetically engineered bugs

Many of the pests that eat our farm crops have been sprayed with pesticides so much they have evolved resistance and can't be killed by them, just like some bacteria have evolved to become resistant to antibiotics. But scientists at UC San Diego can now genetically engineer new insects of the same…Original Article

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