Zika virus hijacks the skin of its human host to send out chemical signals that lure more mosquitoes to infect and spread the ...

Genetically engineered mosquitoes with toxic semen could be a new weapon against tropical disease, Australian scientists said after trialing the novel pest control method. The "toxic male ...

Zika virus hijacks the skin of its human host to send out chemical signals that lure more mosquitoes to infect and spread the disease further, new research shows.

Both male and female mosquitoes feed on plant nectars ... from the mosquito's salivary glands into a human? When taking a blood meal, an infected female mosquito injects its saliva into 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 ...

A study on fruit flies completed by researchers with Macquarie University suggests that genetic modification of male mosquitoes could help minimise the spread of illnesses linked with the insects.

When an infected mosquito bites a person, the malaria parasite is passed into the human bloodstream, infecting them. Mosquitoes in turn can pick up the parasite from an infected human and then ...

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.

Zika transmission has been reported in more than 90 countries as the spread of the Aedes aegypti mosquito that carries the ...