Building on more than 20 years of pioneering leadership in developing biological solutions to pest threats, Flyttr has launched Flyttr Biosecurity, a new large-scale platform to design, build and scale pest biosecurity countermeasures at unprecedented speed.
This will be the largest center of talent, technologies, partnerships, collaborations, resources, leadership and infrastructure needed to take on the big threats we face now and tomorrow.
Flyttr is bringing its expertise and capability to the screwworm fight and is making screwworm the first mission of Flyttr Biosecurity. The effort includes unprecedented speed to stand up emergency sterile fly production in the US in service to the national response.
The threat is moving now
New World screwworm is confirmed across Texas and pushing north. It lays eggs in the wounds of living animals, and it puts herds, wildlife and rural economies directly at risk. The response needs volume, and it needs it this season.
Producing sterile flies in the United States
FastFly is an accelerated manufacturing initiative feeding American-made sterile flies into the USDA-led national response, supported by DARPA, with suppression technologies developed alongside Texas Biomed in San Antonio.
Built for the next threat too
The same program develops modular countermeasure manufacturing: production systems that can be stood up fast, moved, and reconfigured for a different pest. What FastFly builds for screwworm becomes standing national capacity.
Flyttr works with governments, agricultural authorities, industry, research institutions and funders to build next-generation solutions, capabilities or capacity to fight the most important pest threats today and tomorrow.
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