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The company wanted to prevent the spread of diseases like malaria and Zika by culling the mosquito population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">\u201cThe idea would be that when these males mated with females, the offspring would die. And therefore the overall population size of the mosquitos would decline.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Yale professor Jeffrey Powell studied some mosquitos in Brazil to find out how the experiment went.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">\u201cWhat we found was unexpected. Unpredicted.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Yale and other universities came to some surprising findings when they studied a group of genetically modified mosquitoes released in Brazil.&nbsp;A biotech company released tens of millions of male mosquitoes over the course of two years. 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