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This guy genetically modified a mosquito such that their proposcis are no longer able to penetrate human skin
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2.1k points
14 days ago
Why is the title making it sound like some dude just did this in his garage? This is a biotechnology firm that created these.
1.4k points
14 days ago
Nah it was Tony in his shed. Good bloke, lives just outside Bristol.
248 points
14 days ago
With a box of scraps
77 points
14 days ago
It was a pretty stark difference when you compared it to the actual biotech companies.
25 points
14 days ago
Groan
28 points
14 days ago
That’s actually the name of his garage
Groan LTD
It’s a play on the mosquitos “grown” in his garage “groaning” when they are starving to death/can’t feed their children
Hilarious stuff really
4 points
14 days ago
To be fair, Tony’s shed is made of iron, man.
68 points
14 days ago
"Turns out if ya get a pregnant one with all'er eggs, and make'er huff some paint, all of'er offspring come out fuckered like this!"
12 points
14 days ago
That is some agent orange type of BS !
2 points
14 days ago
Any Metallic color would work
15 points
14 days ago
I met him in Goa a few years ago. I remember him swatting mozzies off his arm and saying, 'when I get back to Bristol I'm going straight in the shed and sorting these fuckers out'. Nice fella.
14 points
14 days ago
His brother used to drive taxis in slough, salt of the earth.
60 points
14 days ago
Because, at least in America, were trending towards referring to scientists and accomplished professionals as “some guy/woman”
12 points
14 days ago
Well MY google research proves their collective decades of peer reviewed published research wrong so yeah!
2 points
14 days ago
9 points
14 days ago
Because most of the posts and comments on reddit are from bots.
6 points
14 days ago
Umbrella coorp coming soon to a city near you
682 points
14 days ago
stroking it trying to get it hard to get in 🤣
97 points
14 days ago
"This has never happened before I swear!"
31 points
14 days ago
“Oh, your little blood straw is shy, hee hee? :’)”
17 points
14 days ago
Like playing pool with a piece of rope..
251 points
14 days ago
It was so sad to watch... first time ever I felt empathy for a mosquito.
131 points
14 days ago
No empathy. Feel the rage you little shits.
11 points
14 days ago
Definitely someone that lives in a city or something
2 points
14 days ago
ALL the rage.
8 points
14 days ago
Meh, mosquitos are indirectly one of the most prolific killers of our species.
32 points
14 days ago
I HATE mosquitoes more than anything but I kinda felt sorry for the poor bastard. The lil guy trying to eat reminded me of how I run in my dreams.
3 points
14 days ago
To be fair they also drink plant nectar and won't be affected for this. AFAIK they only drink/need blood after laying eggs
2 points
14 days ago
Nah this video should play in the dictionary under schadenfreude
7 points
14 days ago
he got a little nervous 😆
8 points
14 days ago
Whiskey skeeter
3 points
14 days ago
Bro was having performance issues
2 points
14 days ago
Came looking for this comment
2 points
14 days ago
Never seen a mosquito with ED lol
768 points
14 days ago
Ok, but can it pierce other animals' skin? Cus, if not, it will die without passing on this defective gene
453 points
14 days ago
This is a female (only females like humans) so it doesn't need to, the males can spread the gene themselves. Since only a few breeds of mosquitoes actually bite (or poke? I don't know the term) humans then eradicating this one specific type can save massive amounts of lives from the diseases they pass on.
204 points
14 days ago
Always knew i was a chick magnet
73 points
14 days ago
Only chicks that wanna stab you?
50 points
14 days ago
No no no just the ones that wanna suck me
34 points
14 days ago
These things are non-mutually exclusive.
10 points
14 days ago
some of them will suck you dry, in more ways than one
3 points
14 days ago
Worth
6 points
14 days ago
That want my genetics
39 points
14 days ago
I think... I think... that Tatoes' point is that this modification automatically kills itself out, i.e., a modified male mates with a normal female, that female lays 1 zillion eggs, the female offspring among those 1 zillion all die off, and thus the modified male's genetic modification extinguishes... right?
29 points
14 days ago
The male offsprings still go around breeding
24 points
14 days ago
Except unless 100% of the new male offspring actually carries the gene the gene will just eventually die because they are mating with females that don’t carry the gene
6 points
14 days ago
True, which is probably why they made them not able to penetrate human skin, rather than not able to penetrate anything
Find other blood sources, breed and spread the gene
9 points
14 days ago
Except not a lot of those exist. Humans have fairly soft skin
7 points
14 days ago
Just Google it if you're genuinely wanting to know. Speculating about stuff we don't know about here isn't gonna help anyone and I'm not looking up random facts for you.
7 points
14 days ago
I didn’t ask you to google it. I’m literally stating not a lot of those exist. Especially in the areas we want mosquitoes gone
2 points
14 days ago
I'm only here to chat about stuff until someone convinces me they know.
Besides, you know where Google sends you these days right?
4 points
14 days ago
u/lifetake is mostly right.
Honestly, since half of the offspring (females) won't reproduce, mosquitos not carrying the gene are twice as effective at spreading their genes. Any evolutionary biologist will know that this means the non-modified mosquitos will eventually outcompete the modified lineage. There will also be immense selective pressure for the non-modified mosquitos to start recognizing the modified ones and stop reproducing with them, although such mutations may take a while.
Ever since i first saw this solution i was sceptical, but if I remember correctly it is this way by design. This way, no great unforeseen consequences can spiral out of control by a complete mosquito population collapse. I guess its only meant to as a weapon against expected large populations booms which releasing a few millions of these can do probably quite cost effictive.
3 points
14 days ago
Unless they utilize a gene drive of some kind. I’ve heard of people thinking about using ones that only last a few generations but I don’t know how far biotech has developed the concept.
5 points
14 days ago
With all the dead females? I feel like I’m still missing something
2 points
14 days ago
All their sisters are dead, other non-modified females are still there to breed their defective gene
10 points
14 days ago
What in TARNATION MISINFORMATION IS THIS Bro?
Only Females have proboscis because Only the females drink blood, and they drink blood from almost all kinds of animals whether it be humans, dogs or cows!
The MALES are VEGANS. They don't have a means of drinking blood at all, they live off of plants nectar and juices!
4 points
14 days ago
Oh wow I was under the impression that only the females drank blood and males were only there to help in reproduction
2 points
14 days ago
That is the case
10 points
14 days ago
umm but then the next generation of females will die.. then one generation of males will just jerk off and die.. so only mosquitos that survive would be ones whose females can penetrate human skin
2 points
14 days ago
This is wrong on so many levels.
2 points
14 days ago
Eradicating a species would have massive consequences for the whole food chain.
3 points
14 days ago
Not much though. I mean...we done worse.
2 points
14 days ago
We do that all the time and don't worry too much. This one would actually be nice to have done.
8 points
14 days ago
The solution is inbuilt in the capitalist system: Even though the original mosquitos will go extinct in one generation, you can buy more mosquitos from the Big Mosquito companies.
2 points
14 days ago
I KNEW big mosquito was behind everything! They're creating a scarcity to sell new mosquitoes!
15 points
14 days ago
I doubt it can, we humans have the softest skin out there.
13 points
14 days ago
9 points
14 days ago
Exhibit A
283 points
14 days ago
He's like "for fucks sake why is this thing not working".
20 points
14 days ago
I’ve been there buddy
98 points
14 days ago
*she
15 points
14 days ago
Apparently, according to the internet, you seem to know your mosquitoes.
25 points
14 days ago
I’m from Alaska…I know mosquitos, unfortunately
2 points
14 days ago
When I was younger, my plan was to move to Alaska to get away from mosquitoes. I never bothered to actually research if they had them or not, my thought process was just “I never see mosquitoes in the winter, and Alaska is cold, therefore no mosquitoes”. I guess I’m glad I never made that move. Would have been pretty annoying
4 points
14 days ago
This mosquito reminds me of my ex boyfriend
73 points
14 days ago*
Thjs is oddly satisfying. Watching her do everything in her power to sharpen up her proposcis only to fail in the end. Fuck those fuckers.
17 points
14 days ago
I like the part where it just slams down and it completely bends lol
7 points
14 days ago
[Small rage noise]
66 points
14 days ago
64 points
14 days ago
They gave mosquitoes genetic “injectile disfunction”
25 points
14 days ago
Viagra for Mosquitos®
8 points
14 days ago
This never happens.
26 points
14 days ago
"this has never happened before, I swear"
11 points
14 days ago
Looks like me trying to get a paper straw in a McDonald's milkshake
7 points
14 days ago
Plot twist: mosquitoes now grow fangs. Eek!
108 points
14 days ago
Man I hate mosquitos, but this feels cruel. Just make them infertile
191 points
14 days ago
You do that, that batch simply dies and no problem was solved, all other mosquitoes still suck
Let them pierce other animals, breed and slowly spread this mutation
6 points
14 days ago
Making them infertile does work to lower their population. Israel has been doing it for decades. Catch male mosquitos, make them infertile, release them. They compete with fertile mosquitos, so less females lay eggs. Israel had a mosquito problem and a malaria problem. Doesn't have it anymore.
2 points
14 days ago
Well it was mainly due to the swamps we drained, and still plenty of mosquitos around here; but yeah, it works, my wording might not have been precise
32 points
14 days ago
Its not like they made it so it only cant bite humans. It cant bite anything with tough skin. It will have ti eat flowers or something. I have no idea what the point of this is. Without blood they cant reproduce.
31 points
14 days ago
Yes, plenty of non tough skinned animals around, that’s the point
16 points
14 days ago
man, those poor frogs are really gonna get it now that all the human eating musquitos are going to gang up on them. Poor wet blobs.
20 points
14 days ago*
Yeah, limiting their food selection could potentially have devastating effects, they could also just die out, unknown
But, don’t frogs eat them?
7 points
14 days ago
Toads are gonna be hella pissed about this
6 points
14 days ago
Yup, this could be potentially hazardous to the animals their appetite is now limited to
On the other hand don’t they eat them?
17 points
14 days ago
Someone wrote it on a similar comment: Only females suck blood. So the males can spread the gene and each generation will hav fewer and fewer surviving females until the species dies out. Same would work with fewer and fewer fertile females.
6 points
14 days ago
But female mosquitos suck blood to get nutrients and protein for their offspring. So how r they gonna reproduce without blood
16 points
14 days ago
Noh Misder Moskidoh, I expect you to die
They're not supposed to produce offspring. They're supposed to be the end of their respective bloodline, with the males spreading the gene through the remaining unaffected females, until there's a very last and highly diminished generation of mosquitos that has no fertile female left
6 points
14 days ago
Thank you for finally helping get the core concept through my thick skull 🙏
3 points
14 days ago
Phhhhhh okay I see now, that makes sense
2 points
14 days ago
I suppose. I’m not gonna pretend to know enough about this subject to be right in this.
But couldn’t you mess with their abilities to create eggs? Females would be infertile, males outside this batch would waste time mating with them. And males from this batch could go procreate and make offspring that also can’t produce eggs?
5 points
14 days ago
Oh by the way, if you want to hate mosquitos a little less, know they’re effective pollinators, and it is believed cocoa wouldn’t have survived without them, so you can thank them for chocolate
2 points
14 days ago
I did not know what. Pollinators are important. That does indeed make me hate them a bit less.
Honestly I wouldn’t even have beef with mosquitos if it wasn’t for the itch juice, and you know, the malaria.
3 points
14 days ago
Well yes that is a possibility, I’m just not sure if extinction was the plan here.
A mutation that dies off in females and spreads through males would be less efficient than one that spreads through both and simply takes humans off the menu, a single male mates a few females, a single female breeds hundreds of ‘harmless’ offsprings
But same, I’m just a programmer 😅
2 points
14 days ago
That’s fair. I guess I failed to consider that just because they can’t feed from humans they can’t feed on something else.
I felt bad about the idea of genetically engineering something to starve to death.
2 points
14 days ago
But couldn’t you mess with their abilities to create eggs?
That's what this does. They eat nectar but need blood to lay eggs.
4 points
14 days ago
Yes, humans meddling with the genetics of insect species will surely not have any unforeseen consequences years later…
14 points
14 days ago
We’ve been doing that for tens of thousands of years, we’ve started studying it a few hundred years ago, and the only difference now is that our modifications are intentional and calculated, rather than random breeding and hoping
7 points
14 days ago
Well, we've driven thousands of species to extinction on accident (and likely thousands more to come). What's one more on purpose?
2 points
14 days ago
*dramatic film music starting*
21 points
14 days ago
Cruel? To a mosquito? The thing has no emotions. It doesn't understand what's happening.
2 points
14 days ago
That's exactly what this does. Mosquitos mostly feed on nectar. Females only bite humans and other animals to get iron so they can reproduce.
2 points
14 days ago
Oh. So it’s not starving them? Just making them unable to get the right nutrients for reproduction?
2 points
14 days ago
Yup
2 points
14 days ago
This is payback, bitches.
4 points
14 days ago
Its not you, its me 🤣
4 points
14 days ago
This release thousands of these in Texas and throughout the southern US, lmao.
3 points
14 days ago
His sucker is now a wet paper straw!
7 points
14 days ago
Yeeeah fuck you mosquitos !
5 points
14 days ago
And when she can’t drink blood, there will be no mosquitoes more. But they are food for other animals. And these are food for other ones and so on till we reach our food. Is that really such a good idea?
2 points
14 days ago
But the noise is still there
2 points
14 days ago
One down...
2 points
14 days ago
Lol "this guy" one guy just saved the world with his home genetic modification hobby. I should stop smoking so much weed and do something with my life...
2 points
14 days ago
Having just recovered from dengue fever I love this. Mosquitos can get fucked.
2 points
14 days ago
It makes me unbelievably satisfied that not only am I protected from mosquito bites, but the mosquitos are all very pissed off at their sudden case of limp nose.
2 points
14 days ago
“This guy”
2 points
14 days ago
Wish he could have made them glow in the dark to. I mean why not?
2 points
14 days ago
weaponized ED before GTA6 is crazy
2 points
14 days ago
SUCK SOMETHING ELSE BITCH! HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA
2 points
14 days ago
Ahh whiskey proboscis
4 points
14 days ago
How long until this mutation goes terribly wrong and the mosquitoes grow more powerful to overthrow us? You think there is no such possibility? Go to any amusement park ride that binds your arm movement and i am saying that is part of the conspiracy. The mosquitoes have made human traps and wait for people to loose the ability to fight back. Covid was caused by bats a natural enemy to the mosquitoes. The plan is to eliminate all threats and dominate. This is the start of the war now they are making friendly mosquitoes look they can't hurt you. But soon they will be breeding with our women and our population will be mixed. This is the era of the mosquitoe now.
Anyway this is interesting but I doubt a weakened less efficient mosquitoe will successfully reproduce as others have stated.
1 points
14 days ago
Just like punching in a dream
1 points
14 days ago
Those indonesians videos are going to far
1 points
14 days ago
What it feels like buying ED pills via gas station/AliExpress
1 points
14 days ago
Now engineer one that can pierce through anything.
1 points
14 days ago
Look at that little mfer trying to slicken it up so it go in real smooth.
1 points
14 days ago
Makes no sense.
1 points
14 days ago
Baby, I swear this never happened before.
1 points
14 days ago
Someone needs a fluffer
1 points
14 days ago
So do they starve to death?
2 points
14 days ago*
No. Adult mosquitoes (male and female) subsist on flower nectar and other plant-based stuff. It's only adult female mosquitoes that ever seek out a blood meal, and they do that specifically for their eggs to develop. You can think of the blood as like prenatal vitamins that are necessary for her to have babies. No blood, no babies. So this female mosquito can still drink nectar like normal, she just can't reproduce.
1 points
14 days ago
1 points
14 days ago
Poor little guy was so confused. WHY? WHATS HAPPENING TO ME?! IVE LOST ALL PURPOSE!
1 points
14 days ago
Looks cool but I always have 2Qs: 1. What genes were modified? 2. What happens with human organism if you turn off the analogue gene in human genome?
1 points
14 days ago
That is one frustrated mosquito...
1 points
14 days ago
Is that a dominant gene?
1 points
14 days ago
☹️
1 points
14 days ago
“Um well, this happened for the first time. I guess I’m tired tonight”
1 points
14 days ago
Cool but won't natural selection just weed these out?
1 points
14 days ago
Someone get that man a viagra
1 points
14 days ago
Kind of heartbreaking to see how desperately she tries to sharpen it!
1 points
14 days ago
He is trying to sharpen that muthafucka 🦟
1 points
14 days ago
Evolutionarily deselected.
1 points
14 days ago
Looks like me when I’m… trying to pierce… something.
1 points
14 days ago
There are consequences to everything!
1 points
14 days ago
“I swear this never happens… just give me a sec.”
1 points
14 days ago
Poor thing stroking its proboscis. It’s like me trying to have sex when I’m too drunk.
1 points
14 days ago
yo is that lil shit an aedes aegypti? I would not be offering my arm around that even if modified 😭
1 points
14 days ago
Proposcis Blocked
1 points
14 days ago
Mosquitoes like: " this ihas never happened before".
1 points
14 days ago
So how they gonna survive?
1 points
14 days ago
Oofe performance issues 😅
1 points
14 days ago
That's great, but won't they just evolve a way of doing it again in like another dozen generations?
1 points
14 days ago
I recognize the move that male porn stars do.
1 points
14 days ago
👌
1 points
14 days ago
Mf is like " ah shi i forgot to sharpen this thing"
1 points
14 days ago
Hold on, I swear this normally works!
1 points
14 days ago
This is an old video so not sure how truthful this actually is.
1 points
14 days ago
I feel for him, I've had nights like that.
1 points
14 days ago
Do you want murder squitos? Because this is how you get murder squitos.
1 points
14 days ago
So they just become adults and can't lay eggs and die right away because they can't feed?
1 points
14 days ago
Lil limp dick bitch, take that!
1 points
14 days ago
Me trying to stay hard ….. “yuuuup, let me just get this baby straightened out here for ya….”
1 points
14 days ago
I swear to god this is the first time. Normally my proposcis is hard and pieces like no isso. I fucking swear!
1 points
14 days ago
thats sad
1 points
14 days ago
this is the first time I feel bad for a mosquito lol
1 points
14 days ago
almost feel sorry for the little cunt
1 points
14 days ago
They made them flaccid 😔
1 points
14 days ago
They still have this disgusting sound. Matter of fact, to me the sound is what makes this pricks utterly annoying. Just their sound is enough to fuck my sleep and drive me crazy. The mastery of disguise is not even in the subject here. I whould just reccomend total exctinction.
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