Scientists and government agencies are targeting mosquitoes with bacteria
Dengue fever is one of the most common tropical diseases in the world, affecting several million people every year.
Dengue fever is one of the most common tropical diseases in the world, affecting several million people every year.
Ecology
Feb 29, 2024
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Researcher Jiayue (Gabriel) Yan is part of the Medical Entomology Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His recent study appears in Communications Biology. In this article, he describes his work.
Plants & Animals
Feb 22, 2024
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NUS scientists have revealed the structure and function of a pupal cuticle protein found in the exoskeleton—a hard covering that supports and protects the bodies of some types of invertebrate animals, especially arthropods—of ...
Biotechnology
Jan 23, 2024
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Two private companies announced Friday a partnership to release mosquitoes across the Caribbean bred with a bacterium that blocks the dengue virus as the region fights a record number of cases.
Ecology
Dec 15, 2023
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A detailed atomic exploration into how the dengue virus replicates its genome could catalyze the development of high-precision targeted antiviral therapeutics.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 31, 2023
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A broad-spectrum antiviral drug candidate, 2-thiouridine, that targets positive-strand RNA viruses has been identified and characterized.
Biochemistry
Oct 20, 2023
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Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have made an important finding about Aedes aegypti mosquitoes—one that could one day lead to better methods ...
Ecology
Sep 22, 2023
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If you think there were more mosquitoes this year than usual, you're not wrong.
Plants & Animals
Sep 22, 2023
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New Cleveland Clinic research shows how mosquito-transmitted viruses—like Zika, West Nile, Yellow Fever and dengue viruses—hijack host cells to promote their own replication and infection. Published in Cell Host and Microbe, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 15, 2023
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Unmanned ground vehicles can be used to identify and eliminate the breeding sources of mosquitos that carry dengue fever in urban areas, according to a new study published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases by Wei-Liang ...
Ecology
Jun 8, 2023
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