GENETICALLY engineered “toxic male” mosquitoes could help kill off disease-spreading females. Scientists say the gene-hacked ...

"Toxic male technique" genetically engineers male insects to produce insect-specific venom proteins in their semen.

Diseases such as malaria, dengue, Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever are spread by the females of the Aedes aegypti and ...

When an infected female Anopheles mosquito feeds on a person, it injects saliva into the skin, along with the Plasmodium parasite in a form called a sporozoite. These sporozoites migrate to the ...

The malaria-carrying one is mostly the female anopheles mosquito found in humid and low altitude areas, but Nairobi is mostly cold and conducive to Culex mosquitoes, which don’t transmit malaria.

Study shows targeting lipid transport in mosquitoes can impact malaria transmission by inducing mosquito sterility and ...

Australian researchers engineered a new way to hinder the reproduction of disease-carrying mosquitoes using the TMT.

By targeting the female mosquitoes themselves rather than their offspring, TMT is the first biocontrol technology that could ...

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