"Oxitec’s mosquitoes, for instance, are genetically altered to pass what the company calls “self-limiting” genes to their offspring; when released GM males bree

"Oxitec’s mosquitoes, for instance, are genetically altered to pass what the company calls “self-limiting” genes to their offspring; when released GM males breed with wild female mosquitoes, the resulting generation does not survive into adulthood, reducing the overall population." This is incorrect and reflects the general illiteracy of the population towards this technology. They are producing "gene drive" mosquitos, which contain a genetic element that restricts the sex their offspring, and the offspring of all their descendants, to be male. Gene drive mosquitos cannot breed with each other, because they are male, reducing the total number of mosquito offspring in the next generation, but they compete with unmodified males for mates, spreading the gene drive and exponentially growing their population and repressing the total population more. People, even on hacker news, seem to think we live in a Spider Man comic book. From this thread: "How long before we have lockdowns due to mutant strains of man eating mosquitos."