Google's parent company is developing technology to eradicate mosquitoes around the world

Researchers at Alphabet, Google's parent company, are developing technologies to eliminate mosquito eggs from hatching in order to eradicate mosquito-borne diseases.

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"Tropical Shimaka (Aedes Aegiputi)", a type of aggressive mosquito that mediates yellow fever, has a wing width of only a few millimeters. Such a tropical Shimaka, Alphabet van is sprayed in the town of Brezno, California.

According to Jakob Crawford who is an advanced scientist at Verily Life Sciences under Alphabet, the tropical Shimaka released to the town is in an automated mosquito breeding system located 200 miles (300 km) from South San Francisco It was raised in. The tropical Shimaka bred in this breeding system seems to be infected with bacteria called Bolvacia . The "male tropical Shimaka infected with Bolvacia" sprayed by Verily Life Sciences is 80 thousand, and when they mate with the wild female mosquitoes, the eggs produced by the female mosquito never hatch, so time passes Mosquitoes will disappear from town every time you do.

In the dry climate of California Central Valley, tropical Shimaka will not infect diseases, but it is highly disliked as a pest. However, in the tropical region it is known to mediate fatal diseases spreading all over the world, such as dengue fever and chikungunya fever. Millions of people are infected with these diseases annually and tens of thousands of infected people have died.

However, as Verily Life Sciences did, infecting Tropical Shimaka with Bolvacia could ultimately eradicate mosquitoes, which mediate fatal diseases, along with disease. In the field test conducted in California, the "number of tropical shimacaes suitable for spraying" automatically calculated by the algorithm at a given position is released.

Not only Verily Life Sciences is trying to prevent infectious diseases by eradicating mosquitoes. Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, is also working on research to add "genetic drive" technology to mosquitoes that are mediated to eradicate malaria.

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In order to prevent the mosquito breeding, I will infect male tropical Sima mosquitoes with Bolvacia, but because Borbachia was not originally a tropical Shimaka carrying bacterium, a new way to infect was needed. First of all, it was Fresno's "Mosquito Mate" company that was challenging the attempt to infect Mosquito with Volvacia. Verily Life Sciences has scaled up the efforts of this mosquito mate and has created more advanced breeding and release technologies.

Verily Life Sciences has already sprayed tropical Shimaka infected with Bolvakia twice in the town of Brezno and has sprinkled over 15 million in the past 6 months. As a result, the survey revealed that the number of female mosquitoes decreased to about two-thirds in 2017, and in 2018 the number of mosquitoes decreased by as much as 95%. Verily Life Sciences has done similar experiments not only in the United States but also in Australia, and again succeeded in reducing the number of mosquitoes by 80%.

Furthermore, the breeding system for breeding mosquitoes of Verily Life Sciences is advanced at a considerable level of automation. Once an egg is kept, the robot packs the mosquitoes in a "container filled with water and air" that grows until it grows up. In the container, the machine automatically feeds mosquitoes and the temperature is kept warm. In addition, other robots judge the gender of mosquitoes using optical original technology and classify them. In addition, it seems that digital identifiers are given to mosquitoes hatched and raised from the egg condition and finally released outdoors, it is possible to trace to specific GPS coordinates.