Prognosis
A Google Plan to Wipe Out Mosquitoes Appears to Be Working
Alphabet unit Verily, which is also running coronavirus test sites, reports major progress in Debug project
Mosquito eggs are incubated in the mosquito factory at the Verily lab in South San Francisco, California, on Oct. 18, 2018.
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An experimental program led by Google parent Alphabet Inc. to wipe out disease-causing mosquitoes succeeded in nearly eliminating them from three test sites in California’s Central Valley.