according to bloomberg
Alphabet's Verily Joins Zika Fight With Sterile Mosquito Lab
Alphabet's Verily Joins Zika Fight With Sterile Mosquito Lab
Alphabet Inc.'s health technology company, Verily Life Sciences LLC, is joining the fight against insect-borne Zika virus by automating the breeding and sorting of sterile mosquitoes that can reduce wild populations.Verily has developed machines and sensors that can automatically rear, count, feed, sort and transport the Aedes aegypti mosquito that carries Zika, said Linus Upson, head of engineering.Automation will "dramatically lower the costs," Upson said in a telephone interview, declining to provide any specific numbers.
additionally newsweek
On the Frontlines in the Fight Against Zika in Florida
On the Frontlines in the Fight Against Zika in Florida
Dr. Christine Curry, an obstetrician at the University of Miami Health System, stands at the front of a windowless conference room, where more than a dozen medical students sit dressed in clean white coats.It's late August, nearly a month after the first cases of Zika were reported in Miami-Dade County, making Florida the first state in the U.S. with known local transmission of the virus."Intracranial calcifications: That's a big word for a patient.
coupled with bloomberg
Alphabet's Verily Joins Zika Fight With Sterile Mosquito Lab
Alphabet's Verily Joins Zika Fight With Sterile Mosquito LabAlphabet Inc.'s health technology company, Verily Life Sciences LLC, is joining the fight against insect-borne Zika virus by automating the breeding and sorting of sterile mosquitoes that can reduce wild populations.Verily has developed machines and sensors that can automatically rear, count, feed, sort and transport the Aedes aegypti mosquito that carries Zika, said Linus Upson, head of engineering.Automation will "dramatically lower the costs," Upson said in a telephone interview, declining to provide any specific numbers.
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