Sterilised insects could help control mosquito-borne diseases
Aggressive tiger mosquitoes capable of spreading debilitating tropical diseases such as dengue and Zika are spreading through Europe, but scientists ...
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Millions of genetically-modified mosquitoes will be deployed to save Floridians from bites
Send some my way too, please!
Yum or yuck? Scientists find how mosquitoes evolved a taste for human blood
Dry climate and urbanization prompted the first mosquitoes to increasingly bite humans -- and things aren't looking too well for ...
One gene can turn mosquitoes from females to males, which don’t bite
As far as mosquitoes go, fewer ladies is ideal.
A newly-found microbe could stop mosquitoes from spreading malaria
Researchers found a microbe in Kenya that protects mosquitoes against malaria.
Malaria-bearing mosquitoes are evolving insecticide-resistant feet
But we now know how to stop it.
Multidrug-resistant malaria spreading across Southeast Asia
An aggressive strain of drug-resistant malaria that originated in Cambodia has rapidly spread into neighboring countries.
Mosquitoes hunt first by smell, then by eyesight
They track the CO2 you breathe out.
Why mosquitoes bite me more than others
In short: mosquitoes like you more because you're easier to find on their 'radar'.
Genetically modified fungus wipes out 99% of malaria-carrying mosquitoes
A genetically modified organism could help mankind eradicate malaria.
Algeria and Argentina are now malaria-free
The two countries join many others who have recently eliminated malaria from within their borders.
Dengue vaccine candidate looks promising in Phase 3 Trial
Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease that causes flu-like symptoms but can be lethal and kill up to 20% of those ...
We can eradicate malaria — but we need to use new tricks
Improvise, adapt, eliminate.
Mosquitoes are eating microplastics, which they pass on to the food chain
Ultimately, what the mosquito eats, we eat as well.
Indiana’s health officials warn of West Nile virus spotted in mosquitoes in Elkhart, Carroll County
There's no need to panic, no human cases have yet been reported.
Mosquito saliva can affect your immune system up to a weeks
Guess what: one more reason to hate mosquitoes.
Malaria makes its hosts smell better to draw more mosquitoes, research finds
Sneaky, sneaky plasmodium.
Drug could make human blood deadly toxic to mosquitoes
A drug developed in the 1980s to fight parasites can make human blood toxic to mosquitoes when taken in a ...
CRISPR edit makes mosquitoes far less likely to pass malaria
This looks like a better alternative to wiping out mosquitoes at the population level.
Waving away mosquitoes teaches them to stop bothering prey
Mosquitoes learned to associate smells with vibrations mimicking human hand movements produced by "the vortexer" machine.