Word: riddiford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lynn M. Riddiford, assistant professor of Biology, and a Czech scientist discovered that juvenile hormone must be absent from insect eggs for normal hatching to take place. This finding led to the possibility of releasing males with juvenile hormone on their genitalia. Every wild female that mates with one of these males would become sterile. If enough sterilizing males are let loose, the target insect's population would drop, but the hormone would effect no other species...
...Rockefeller Foundation also seems to think juvenile hormones are a good bet. Last March it gave $250,000 to Williams, Riddiford, and Fotis C. Kafatos, professor of Biology. The money will pay for five or six postdoctoral fellows who will concentrate on specific problems in the pesticide program...