Female mosquitoes are targeted because only they bite and drink blood, thereby spreading diseases such as malaria and dengue ...

Understanding biological relationships is often critical when studying animal populations. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig University, the German ...

Genetically engineered mosquitoes with toxic semen could be a new weapon against tropical disease, Australian scientists said ...

Mosquitoes are able to survive prolonged droughts by drinking blood, which helps to explain how their populations quickly rebound when it finally rains, biologists at the University of Cincinnati said ...

Mosquitoes looking to mate in Australia are about to have the worst sex of their lives – thanks to genetic modifications turning their semen toxic. That's part of a new mosquito population ...

Australian researchers have developed a method to genetically modify male mosquitoes to produce venom proteins, which are ...

“There are three genotypes or genetic varieties” of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, explained Conicet researcher Sheila Ons, lead author of the study. “The sensitive, individuals that are hit by ...

Researchers at Applied BioSciences at Macquarie University and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology at Macquarie University have developed a biological pest control method that ...

Until now, most "modified mosquito" research has focused on creating ... females could be "immediately reduced". It would work by genetically engineering the male insects to produce venom proteins ...

A genetic biocontrol method which reduces the lifespan of female insects could work as fast as pesticides to reduce ...

Genetically modified mosquitoes with poisonous semen could soon be deployed in a bid to take out the disease carrying female mosquitoes. Researchers from the government funded CSIRO have worked ...

GENETICALLY engineered "toxic male" mosquitoes could help kill off disease-spreading females. Scientists say the gene-hacked male insects can cull female numbers by mating with venomous semen.