Tag: spraying
International Pest Control – September/October 2025 – Vol 67, Nr.5
The Human Genome Project took 13 years from launch to completion and cost an estimated $2.7 billion. Now, using massively parallel sequencing, the task can be completed in just hours: my friendly AI says the record is 7.5 hours although more normally it takes weeks. Now gene sequencing is used in all parts of our […]
VERV programme – questions for the EPA
This is the second article in a two-part series regarding the intertwined problems of growing insecticide resistance and the lack of investment in novel public health use insecticides (Part I can be found in the November/December 2023 issue of IPC). A new US incentive programme aims to mitigate these problems. Reading the US Environmental Protection […]
International news in brief – November/December 2018
Europe’s largest flow-through mesocosm launches in Yorkshire Europe’s first fully flow-through, edge of field waterbody safety assessment facility has been opened by Kevin Hollinrake, UK Member of Parliament for Thirsk and Malton at an event in York, England. The E-Flows mesocosm is a ground-breaking project designed and developed by translational science and research organisation Fera […]
