A team of scientists, including researchers at UCSD, have developed a gene-editing method to block mosquitoes from spreading ...

Brazilian researchers launched the world's largest mosquito biofactory to target the kind that spreads dengue fever and other ...

Batches of irradiated male mosquitoes are slated for release Wednesday in Lake Elsinore with the goal of pairing the modified insects with as many females as possible to kill off the overall mosquito ...

Mosquitoes inoculated with Wolbachia bacteria are used to reduce the transmission of diseases such as dengue, chikungunya, ...

The newly developed system uses CRISPR-Cas9 “scissors” and a guide RNA to make a genetic cut at a precise location within the mosquito’s genome. It then replaces the unwanted amino acid that transmits ...

Mosquitoes kill more people each year than any other animal. In 2023, the blood-sucking insects infected a reported 263 ...

Mosquitoes kill more people each year than any other animal. In 2023, the blood-sucking insects infected a reported 263 million people with malaria, leading to nearly 600,000 deaths, 80% of which were ...

Gene-edited animals or plants wouldn’t have a chance if released into a barren habitat or a poaching hotspot. Genomic tools ...

Researchers have shed new light on the most common genetic variant linked to hereditary cancer in Quebec's French-Canadian ...

President Donald Trump doubled down on his distaste for the late night TV landscape with a blistering social media post Tuesday morning.

The neighborhoods targeted by federal agents for immigration raids were overwhelmingly Latino, according to data from a prominent immigrant rights group.