Mosquitoes are one of humanity's greatest nemeses, estimated to spread infections to nearly 700 million people per year and cause more than one million deaths.
Biotechnology
May 24, 2021
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The human blood meal is a favorite recipe for female mosquitoes. So drawn to its taste, they can't help but bite—and in the process they spread diseases that claim 500,000 lives each year.
Plants & Animals
Oct 13, 2020
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Feeding mosquitoes sugar makes them less attracted to humans, a response that is regulated by the protein vitellogenin, according to a study publishing May 9 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Jessica Dittmer, Paolo ...
Molecular & Computational biology
May 9, 2019
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Female mosquitoes are known to rely on an array of sensory information to find people to bite, picking up on carbon dioxide, body odor, heat, moisture, and visual cues. Now researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 28, 2019
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Every year, nearly 700 million people contract mosquito-borne illnesses such as malaria, dengue, West Nile virus or yellow fever.
Plants & Animals
Mar 6, 2019
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When it's hot and dry, mosquitoes like nothing more than the refreshing taste of you.
Plants & Animals
May 1, 2018
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If you thought the sex lives of humans were complicated, consider the case of the female Aedes aegypti mosquito, bringer of Zika, dengue, and yellow fever: She mates but once, in seconds and on the wing, with one lucky male; ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 13, 2017
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Scientists have found the key to mosquitoes' stealth takeoffs: They barely push off when making a fast getaway, but instead rely on strong and rapid wing beats to quickly get aloft without anyone noticing.
Plants & Animals
Oct 18, 2017
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Biologists who study the malaria mosquito's 'nose' have found that it contains a secondary set of odor sensors that seem to be specially tuned to detect humans. The discovery could aid efforts to figure out how the insects ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 17, 2017
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In a new study, Vanderbilt pharmacologist Jerod Denton, Ph.D., Ohio State entomologist Peter Piermarini, Ph.D., and colleagues report an experimental molecule that inhibits kidney function in mosquitoes and thus might provide ...
Ecology
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