If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. “To date, there are no environment-friendly treatments ...

The New World screwworm, a devastating livestock pest that feeds on living animal tissue, was eradicated from U.S. soil using a groundbreaking technique known as the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT).

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Leveraging advancements in CRISPR-based genetic engineering, researchers at the University of California San Diego have created a new system that restrains populations of mosquitoes that infect ...

For the first time, researchers in Canada have investigated the use of the sterile insect technique for controlling populations of the pepper weevil, Anthonomus eugenii, an economically significant ...

If you're trying to disperse 300,000 disease-fighting mosquitos per day, using a drone may well be your best bet for doing so. The technology has already been tested in Brazil, where it showed very ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. The Mediterranean fruit fly or medfly, one of the most ...

The Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) is an environmentally benign, species-specific method for suppressing or eradicating pest fruit fly populations. It relies on the mass rearing and sterilisation, ...