Mosquito Extinction
Synopsis
Google parent company Alphabet has its life sciences division focused on forcing a mass mosquito extinction. In the California city of Fresno, researchers are setting loose sterilized mosquitos
Alphabet, Googles parent company, has pointed its gaze at mosquitos as the latest intentional manmade mass extinction. Googles life sciences branch has initiated the project in the city of Fresno California where their researchers are breeding and releasing sterilized mosquitos that could help wipe out the larger population. The intention of the project is to attempt to hinder the spread of diseases such as the Zika Virus, Malaria, and The Dengue Virus.
Health and life sciences has been a growing focus amongst Alphabet for some years now. This market is engaged in seeking partnerships amongst wearables companies such as Fitbit, and Verily, which was originally considered a moonshot now is a full division within Alphabet around 2015 amongst a number of departments that Google Aimed to rebrand. Verilys goal is as follows: "Verily is developing tools to collect and organize health data, then creating interventions and platforms that put insights derived from that health data to use for more holistic care management. We have three guiding product design principles: start with the user, simplify care, and lead on security and privacy."
Google is not the first in the recent years to target insects as tools or threats to be eliminated. DARPA in 2017 deveoped a project called insect allies, whos mission statement is as follows: "To develop such countermeasures, Insect Allies performer teams are leveraging a natural and efficient two-step delivery system to transfer modified genes to plants: insect vectors and the plant viruses they transmit. The program’s three technical areas—viral manipulation, insect vector optimization, and selective gene therapy in mature plants—layer together to support the goal of rapidly modifying plant traits without the need for extensive infrastructure. Since the start of the program, Insect Allies teams with expertise in molecular and synthetic biology have demonstrated mounting technical breakthroughs that are providing foundational knowledge in plant virus gene editing and disease vector biology from which the program will continue to build. "
It is no secret as of late that our Honey Bee population has been going extinct. However, this was semi-unintentional as glyphosates found in pesticides produced by monsanto have been found to target enzymes in Honey Bees that promote healthy gut bacteria. Monsanto had no doubt that their concoction was attributing to diminishing bee populations, in fact, they as a company stand to benefit from it. It was the population of the countries that implimented the pesticides that detested accusations for near a decade of such a correlation. It should come as no surprise that Bayer, the company who recently bought Monsanto, has a similarly harmful ingredient to the bees within their own pesticide; Neonictonoids. "a class of neuro-active insecticides chemically similar to nicotine".
As the citizens found it hard to grasp that these companies would cause such a negative impact on our ecosystem, that time is over. going forward, theres no excuse for the same benefit of the doubt. The fact is, with their extinction, we have made our species essential for the preservation of the current eco system essentially by being the only secies with the capability to synthetically replicate the polination habbits of the Honey Bee. Something that should have never happened. We now have the Most technically advanced Defense Contractor as well as the Largest Tech company globally investing considerable, Time, Effort, and money towards eliminating more insects from our fragile ecosystem.
it has been observed that only Female Mosquitoes suck blood; The males consume necter as their #1 source of sustinence, making them one of our most valuable polinators. Their perseverence as a species should be high on our prioritieswhen it comes to preserving the earth and its eco system. for now it seems that their preservation has been intentionally removed from the list of priorities all together..
Sources
- Alphabet Investor Relations
- Homepage for CDC's Zika virus website
- Malaria is a serious disease caused by a parasite that infects a certain type of mosquito
- WHO fact sheet dengue and severe dengue provides key facts, definition, provides information on global burden, transmission, characteristics, treatment, prevention and control and WHO response
- Verily is an Alphabet health technology and platform company purpose-built for healthcare AI
- Since 1958, DARPA has made pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security. As the world changes dramatically – and even the pace of change itself increases – the agency seeks to engage the best minds and best ideas across specialties, communities, and disciplines to solve the greatest national security challenges on the horizon. The agency launched DARPAConnect in 2022 with a goal to broaden DARPA’s reach and stimulate growth and collaboration with small businesses and education institutions new to the national security space. DARPAConnect aims to break down barriers of entry to find the next groundbreaking solutions. The effort is built on a partnership intermediary agreement with the Applied Research Institute, known as ARI, which is facilitating pop-up events in a few cities around the country along with education opportunities, workshops, a mentor/ambassador component, and other outreach efforts
- The Insect Allies program is pursuing scalable, readily deployable, and generalizable countermeasures against potential natural and engineered threats to the food supply with the goals of preserving the U.S. crop system. National security can be quickly jeopardized by naturally occurring threats to the crop system, including pathogens, drought, flooding, and frost, but especially by threats introduced by state or non-state actors. Insect Allies seeks to mitigate the impact of these incursions by applying targeted therapies to mature plants with effects that are expressed at relevant timescales—namely, within a single growing season. Such an unprecedented capability would provide an urgently needed alternative to pesticides, selective breeding, slash-and-burn clearing, and quarantine, which are often ineffective against rapidly emerging threats and are not suited to securing mature plants
- recently it has been found that, Acetylcholinesterase by way of external intoxicants have been the cause of Bee Extinction. | The Daily Dialectics | TDD
- Monsanto developed and patented the use of glyphosate to kill weeds in the early 1970s and first brought it to market in 1974 under the Roundup brandname.[27][28] While its initial patent[29] expired in 1991, Monsanto retained exclusive rights in the United States until its patent[30] on the isopropylamine salt expired in September 2000.[31] In 2008, scientists at the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) described glyphosate as a 'virtually ideal' herbicide.[27] In 2010 Powles stated: 'glyphosate is a one in a 100-year discovery that is as important for reliable global food production as penicillin is for battling disease.'[32] As of April 2017, the Canadian government stated that glyphosate was 'the most widely used herbicide in Canada',[33] at which date the product labels were revised to ensure a limit of 20% POEA by weight.[33][failed verification] Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency found no risk to humans or the environment at that 20% limit, and that all products registered in Canada at that time were at or below that limit
- Neonicotinoids, like nicotine, bind to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) of a cell and trigger a response by that cell. In mammals, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are located in cells of both the central nervous system and peripheral nervous systems. In insects, these receptors are limited to the central nervous system. Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are activated by the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. While low to moderate activation of these receptors causes nervous stimulation, high levels overstimulate and block the receptors,[5][35] causing paralysis and death. Acetylcholinesterase breaks down acetylcholine to terminate signals from these receptors. However, acetylcholinesterase cannot break down neonicotinoids and their binding is irreversible.[35] Neonicotinoids were assigned to IRAC group 4A
- Many scientists think the planet wouldn’t much miss mosquitos
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