Virus trap
Australian researchers have developed a unique technique to check the rapid growth of mouse population. The government-backed Cooperative Research Centre (crc) for Biological Control of Pest Animals has produced a genetically modified herpes virus that makes sexually prolific female mice infertile by blocking sperm from entering their eggs.
"We know it works in a shoebox-level experimental setting. Now we want to try it in a field setting,' says Tony Peacock, director of crc. The centre has urged the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator