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The highly effective treatment involves sterilizing screwworm pupae -- the immobile stage of the screwworm before metamorphosis -- by exposing them to gamma radiation and then releasing them into the wild to mate with fertile females.
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 11 June 2026
This was done using Sterile Fly Technique, which involves breeding millions of male flies in specialized facilities, sterilizing them with gamma radiation, then dropping them from the air like bombs.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026
His team sealed dirt into jars and blasted them with sterilizing gamma radiation.
—Siddhant Pusdekar, Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2026
When a mold’s takeover of an artifact must be stopped, there’s gamma radiation—pelting it with electromagnetic energy from radioactive decay to kill fungi and spores.
—Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2026
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 11 June 2026
This was done using Sterile Fly Technique, which involves breeding millions of male flies in specialized facilities, sterilizing them with gamma radiation, then dropping them from the air like bombs.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026
His team sealed dirt into jars and blasted them with sterilizing gamma radiation.
—Siddhant Pusdekar, Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2026
When a mold’s takeover of an artifact must be stopped, there’s gamma radiation—pelting it with electromagnetic energy from radioactive decay to kill fungi and spores.
—Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2026
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“Gamma radiation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gamma%20radiation. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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