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Fake Flowers Will Drain Poison From Wild Mosquitoes

flower2.gifA company called Provector is going to seed the wilds with fake flowers that cure mosquito disease. Each flower is packed with technology that delivers pathogen-killing drugs to the unwary insects, who will be lured to them and then cleansed of diseases like dengue fever and malaria. Hooray for artificial nature. [Scientific American]

2:15 PM on Thu Nov 29 2007
By Annalee Newitz
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