In May 2021, biotech company Oxitec launched a controversial field test of specially engineered mosquitoes in Florida in a move toward reducing the spread of deadly diseases such as dengue, yellow fever, and the Zika virus. Source
Verdict persistedThe same trend is listed again within the publisher's next two editions (D33 ). Same subject listed again in 2023.
A trend is graded on whether the publisher keeps it, never as a hit or a miss (D6 , D33 ).
The same forecast in other editions All captured fields
rank 481
section Synthetic Biology, Biotechnology & AgTech
subsection Synthetic Biology / Sustainability Applications
subject Engineered Mosquitoes
horizon Informs Strategy
page 563
confidence high
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Hindsight, claim ftsg-tech-trends-2022-481, persisted as of 2026-10-03. Envisioning. https://www.envisioning.com/hindsight/claims/ftsg-tech-trends-2022-481
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