After years of research, scientists know our blood types determine mosquitoes' choices. Other factors also play a role.

Mosquito blood meals reveal history of human infections In the 1990s, scientists suggested that molestus could have evolved in the London Underground tunnels themselves 2, but populations of the ...

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 ...

Importantly, this multi-peptide protein is expressed from a promoter that is turned on in the midgut, specifically when the mosquito feeds on a blood meal. In this way, the peptide is expressed in ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Living on a diet of blood requires some specific adaptations, such as a way to keep the food source flowing. To prevent their meal from turning ...

Pilar Pérez Romero is affiliated with the spin-off company Vaxdyn SL as a founding partner. Lee Rafuse Haines does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

Entomologist and wildlife photographer Gil Wizen spent four years trying to capture the perfect image of an iridescent blood-sucking mosquito. His persistence - and risks - paid off as his photo: ...

Biological scientists have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope protein to capture human plasmin from a blood meal to enhance the permeability of the mosquito midgut for infection.