"DEET has been around for over 50 years and it has very low toxicity to humans," says Stacy Rodriguez, MS, a laboratory manager at the Molecular Vector Physiology Lab at New Mexico State University.

In a crowded marketplace of products advertised to repel mosquitoes, consumers are wise to trust spray-on repellents containing DEET or PMD ... manager at the Molecular Vector Physiology ...

The yellow fever mosquito has developed a resistance to the mosquito repellent DEET. Mosquitoes can develop a resistance to substances used to repel them. This has been shown for the first time in ...

Biochemist Walter Leal has discovered which receptor on mosquito antennae detects DEET, making it an effective repellant ... said lead author Professor Walter Leal of the Department of Molecular and ...

DEET was more effective than Picaridin as a repellent Older ... a study by chemical ecologist and mosquito researcher Walter Leal, distinguished professor in molecular and cellular biology at the ...