Recently, genetically modified mosquitoes were released in Florida, US, following the successful trials in Brazil, the Cayman ...

The Malaysian Academy of Sciences is likely to advise the government to press on with field trials of genetically modified male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes ... into the mosquito's DNA to produce ...

When tested with recordings of actual mosquito wingbeats and frog calls, the results were striking. Male Aedes aegypti antennae could detect female wingbeats even at very low volumes despite the ...

The familiar buzz of a flying female mosquito may be irritating to humans, but for her male counterpart, it is an irresistible mating signal. American scientists have discovered that during mating ...

Zika virus is classified as a Flavivirus and is transmitted principally by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Zika was an obscure virus that was not associated ... Women expecting to become pregnant and ...

3168-3187 (20 pages) Mosquito-borne diseases are threatening half of the world's population. A novel strategy of disease control is to suppress the mosquito population by releasing male mosquitoes ...

The mosquito is said to thrive in areas where ... A British company, Oxitec Ltd., created male Aedes aegypti that cannot produce offspring. Among mosquitoes born between genetically altered ...

LCMCD started a new program to decrease the number of aedes aegypti ... re the first mosquito control district ever to do this. Essentially, their scientists sterilize male mosquitoes, then ...

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is partnering with mosquito engineering company Oxitec to develop a male mosquito designed to kill off future generations of malaria-transmitting bugs.