{"id":29055,"date":"2016-08-06T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=29055"},"modified":"2016-08-06T03:00:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T03:00:16","slug":"freak-of-nature-fda-approves-genetically-engineered-mosquitoes-to-combat-zika-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=29055","title":{"rendered":"Freak of nature: FDA approves genetically engineered mosquitoes to combat Zika virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href='https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/354825-fda-genetically-engineered-mosquitoes-zika\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS'>https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/354825-fda-genetically-engineered-mosquitoes-zika\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Preview\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/img.rt.com\/files\/2016.08\/thumbnail\/57a4f435c36188b85b8b45bc.jpg\" \/> Genetically engineered mosquitoes have been approved for field trials in Florida by the Food and Drugs Administration, in order to battle the spreading Zika virus. The federal agency says it \u201cwill not have significant impacts on the environment.\u201d <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/354825-fda-genetically-engineered-mosquitoes-zika\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS\">Read Full Article at RT.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <a href='https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/354825-fda-genetically-engineered-mosquitoes-zika\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS'>https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/354825-fda-genetically-engineered-mosquitoes-zika\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Preview\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/img.rt.com\/files\/2016.08\/thumbnail\/57a4f435c36188b85b8b45bc.jpg\" \/> Genetically engineered mosquitoes have been approved for field trials in Florida by the Food and Drugs Administration, in order to battle the spreading Zika virus. The federal agency says it \u201cwill not have significant impacts on the environment.\u201d <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/354825-fda-genetically-engineered-mosquitoes-zika\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS\">Read Full Article at RT.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}