The expansion comes as governments across Asia look for more durable ways to control dengue, a disease that threatens about 4 billion people globally and has proven difficult to contain through pesticides, inspections and public education alone.
Google is expanding a Singapore lab that breeds mosquitoes, as part of a push to turn dengue control into a problem of robotics, software and industrial-scale production.
The company's decade-old programme targeting mosquito-borne diseases, Debug, is upgrading its Singapore operation into its first international research and development hub and its largest adult mosquito production facility globally.
