The method involves using low-dose X-rays to render male mosquitoes unable to reproduce. Male mosquitoes don't bite and won’t have contact with people or spread disease.

Typically, the annual blessings are conducted at Kōkeʻe, near the Alaka‘i Plateau where, for nearly 20 years, staff from the Kaua‘i Forest Bird Recovery Project have worked to save the island’s native ...

How fruit flies mate may hold a key to limiting the spread of diseases by mosquitoes. In a new study, University of Iowa researchers found a gene that orchestrates the antenna movements of female ...

Helicopters will transport researchers and their supplies in efforts to reduce crucial time away from fieldwork with the ...

Instead of creating new types of pesticides or machines to eliminate the abundance of disease-carrying mosquitoes, a group of researchers from Australia have engineered 'Toxic Male' mosquitoes to ...

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Australian researchers have developed a method to genetically modify male mosquitoes to produce venom proteins, which are transferred to females during mating, shortening their lifespan and ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa have uncovered a gene in fruit flies that plays a crucial role in their courtship ...

TMT involves genetically modifying male mosquitoes so that they produce toxic proteins in their sperm. When they mate with females, the latter experience a reduced lifespan, which decreases their ...

The move is aimed at informing critical research in the global fight against malaria. Thank you for reading Nation.Africa Show plans The Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) has extended its ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins are in need of healthy adult male volunteers with type O+ blood to help the researchers study malaria parasites and sustain mosquito colonies used in crucial research ...