NIH-funded project shows graphene could provide alternative to chemicals in insect repellant and protective clothing An innovative graphene-based film helps shield people from disease-carryi... Read more
Technology developed at the University of Maryland could safely reduce malaria mosquito populations, including insecticide-resistant strains According to the World Health Organization, malar... 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 Zika virus... 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 control for... Read more
Ecological traps have the potential to effectively control pest species and inhibit the spread of infectious diseases, according to a University of Maine researcher. A recently published stu... Read more
Nearly 700 million people suffer from mosquito-borne diseases — such as malaria, West Nile, Zika and dengue fever — each year, resulting in more than 1 million deaths. Increasingly, many spe... Read more
Researchers at the University of Waterloo may have discovered a new, pesticide-free way to limit mosquito populations in some areas and reduce the spread of the West Nile virus. The study by... Read more
In a new study, Vanderbilt pharmacologist Jerod Denton, Ph.D., Ohio State entomologist Peter Piermarini, Ph.D., and colleagues report an experimental molecule that inhibits kidney function i... Read more
Novel study identifies an area of the mosquito brain that mixes taste and smell A new study by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests that a specialized area of the mosquito brain mixes tastes w... Read more
South America is fighting a battle against tiger mosquitoes that transmit yellow fever, dengue fever and the Zika virus. In Central Europe, wine and fruit growers fear another year of massiv... Read more
The recent discovery of the first male-determining factor in mosquitoes, combined with the gene-editing capabilities of the CRISPR-Cas9 system, could be used to bias mosquito populations fro... Read more
With public concern about the Zika virus growing daily, people are looking for effective ways to prevent mosquito bites, and now there’s some good news for the concerned public. According to... Read more
A wind- and solar-powered LED light that attracts and traps mosquitoes could help reduce the number of dengue cases in Asia. Researchers at a Malaysian university have built an LED street la... Read more
James Cook University researchers have found sex sells when it comes to luring male mosquitoes. Senior Research Officer Brian Johnson and Professor Scott Ritchie set out to make a cheap and... Read more
Interbreeding of two malaria mosquito species in the West African country of Mali has resulted in a “super mosquito” hybrid that’s resistant to insecticide-treated bed nets. “It’s ‘super’ wi... Read more
