tetracycline

How to use tetracycline in a sentence

• The distance matters because pest controllers want to keep the free-flying GM mosquitoes away from outdoor sources of the antibiotic tetracycline.

  The U.S.’s first open-air genetically modified mosquitoes have taken flight | Susan Milius | May 14, 2021 | Science News

• The mosquitoes are raised in a laboratory in the presence of tetracycline, an antibiotic that prevents the added gene from activating.

  Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Have Come to the U.S. Will They Work? | Alejandro de la Garza / Florida Keys, Fl. | May 9, 2021 | Time

• At Oxitec’s laboratory in the UK, the company genetically engineers the mosquitoes, giving the insects the “self-limiting” gene that makes the females dependent on the antibiotic tetracycline.

  First GMO Mosquitoes to Be Released in the Florida Keys | Taylor White | April 15, 2021 | Singularity Hub 

• Gorman emphasized to Undark that the EPA and other regulators found no risk in using tetracycline in breeding their genetically-altered mosquitoes.

  First GMO Mosquitoes to Be Released in the Florida Keys | Taylor White | April 15, 2021 | Singularity Hub 

• I didn't spot it until I found them wolfing down the tetracycline capsules in my samples case.

  The Native Soil | Alan Edward Nourse