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 ...

Doctors attributed the surge to intermittent rainfall and the early onset of the monsoon, which created ideal conditions for mosquito breeding ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Would you get a one-time genetic modification such that you'd never have to take a GLP-1 drug for weight loss ever again?