Corn starch, an abundant, cheap and biodegradable raw material, is the basis for a novel larvicide developed by researchers at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in São Paulo Sta... Read more
UCR identifies new tool to kill mosquitoes Scientists have finally found malaria’s Achilles’ heel, a neurotoxin that isn’t harmful to any living thing except Anopheles mosquitoes t... Read more
Scientists from Australia’s national science agency CSIRO and the University of California San Diego have engineered mosquitoes to be resistant to spreading the devastating Z... Read more
Researchers at the University of Arizona have discovered a protein that prevents mosquitoes from hatching, opening the possibility of developing new drugs that could act as birth c... Read more
UC Riverside study uses gene-editing tool to disrupt serotonin receptor linked to egg production in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes Mosquitoes are the world’s deadliest animals, kil... Read more
The Kite Patch attaches to your clothes and puts out a chemical that masks you from the bugs. And the company is hoping you’ll pay for that, so they can use the money to send the p... Read more
