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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Male mosquitoes won't bite you. For one thing, they cannot—males are hopelessly bad at finding humans and lack a specialized stylet to pierce your skin. But even if they could bite you, they would not want to. They refuse ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 22, 2021
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Virginia Tech researchers have proven that a single gene can convert female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes into fertile male mosquitoes and identified a gene needed for male mosquito flight.
Plants & Animals
Jul 14, 2020
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A modification that creates more male offspring was able to eliminate populations of malaria mosquitoes in lab experiments.
Plants & Animals
May 12, 2020
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Transgenic mosquitoes released in Brazil in an effort to reduce the population of disease-bearing insects have successfully bred and passed on genes to the native mosquito population, a new Yale research study published Sept. ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 11, 2019
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The ears of male mosquitoes amplify the sound of an approaching female using a self-generated phantom tone that mimics the female's wingbeats, which increases the ear's acoustic input by a factor of up to 45,000, finds a ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 25, 2018
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Mosquitoes harbor gut bacteria just like people do—and the bugs inside the bugs may hold a key to fighting malaria.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 28, 2017
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Scientists in Brazil are preparing to release millions of factory-bred mosquitoes in an attempt to wipe out their distant cousins that carry tropical diseases. The insects' method: have sex and then die.
Plants & Animals
Oct 29, 2016
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Virginia Tech researchers have found a gene that can reduce female mosquitoes over many generations.
Biotechnology
Sep 22, 2016
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Like mariners lured on to the rocks by the siren songs of legend, male mosquitoes have been found to zero in on inexpensive traps that broadcast sound that is similar in frequency to the sound that is produced by the wing-beats ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 26, 2015
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