GENETICALLY engineered “toxic male” mosquitoes could help kill off disease-spreading females. Scientists say the gene-hacked ...

"Toxic male technique" genetically engineers male insects to produce insect-specific venom proteins in their semen.

Mosquito-borne diseases like dengue fever cause hundreds of thousands of deaths every year and a new venture wants to change ...

A new biological pest control method that targets the lifespan of female insects could significantly reduce the threat of ...

Dengue fever is a disease spread by the vector called Aedes mosquito ... It is primarily transmitted by the bite of an infected mosquito but it is non-contagious i.e. it never transmits from ...

so they bite humans. Each female mosquito can lay multiple batches of eggs during its lifetime, and often Aedes aegypti take several blood meals before laying a batch of eggs. When a female ...

A biotechnology firm has been seeking approval from the federal government to release genetically modified mosquitoes in ...

Since male mosquitoes neither bite nor suck any blood, they can be released over an extended period, reducing the Aedes albopictus population and preventing the spread of dengue fever, Qian said.

Dengue viruses are spread to people through mosquito bites of infected Aedes species. These are the same types of mosquitoes that spread Zika and chikungunya viruses. Mosquitoes become infected ...

The Hawaii Department of Health today confirmed another travel-related dengue case on Oahu, bringing the total number in the ...

“They are aedes, but it is not the mosquito that ... “We must try to avoid the bite of new mosquitoes; also asymptomatic people should put on repellent to avoid acquiring dengue,” she ...