Health officials point to the EPA’s list of approved repellents as the best defense against mosquitoes that spread West Nile ...

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

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 ...