News articles tagged with 'mosquito'
Identifying the origin of the fly
— 2 Apr 2011 11:25 | BiologySome may think that the mosquito and the house fly are worlds apart when it comes to common ancestry but new research published this week by an international team of scientists puts…
Insight into parasite family planning could help target malaria
— 17 Mar 2011 17:34 | HealthFresh insight into the way the parasite that causes malaria reproduces could lead to new treatments to help curb the spread of the disease…
Genetically modified fungi kill malaria-causing parasites in mosquitoes
— 26 Feb 2011 18:12 | HealthSpraying malaria-transmitting mosquitoes with a genetically modified fungus can kill the malaria parasite without harming the mosquito, potentially reducing malaria transmission to…
New study shows ability of transgenic fungi to combat malaria and other bug-borne diseases
— 26 Feb 2011 16:57 | HealthNew findings by a University of Maryland-led team of scientists indicate that a genetically engineered fungus carrying genes for a human anti-malarial antibody or a scorpion anti-malarial…
Floating spores kill malaria mosquito larvae
— 21 Feb 2011 17:09 | HealthThere are over 200 million cases of malaria each year and, according to the World Health Organisation, in 2009 malaria was responsible for 781,000 deaths worldwide. Malaria is spread…
Brandeis study shows economic impact of dengue virus in Americas
— 8 Feb 2011 16:33 | HealthDengue illness, the most common mosquito-borne viral disease in the world, has expanded from its Southeast Asian origins and is resurgent in countries such as Argentina, Chile and the…
Mechanisms of juvenile hormone action in insects could help fine tune pesticides
— 4 Jan 2011 19:59 | BiologyJust as raging hormones are part of the process of a child's maturation through the teen years to adulthood, juvenile hormones, a group of insect isoprenoids, play an important role…
Discovery by UC Riverside entomologists could shrink dengue-spreading mosquito population
— 3 Dec 2010 18:29 | BiologyEach year, dengue fever infects as many as 100 million people while yellow fever is responsible for about 30,000 deaths worldwide. Both diseases are spread by infected female Aedes…
Mosquito monitoring saves lives and money, analysis finds
— 27 Oct 2010 11:05 | HealthCutting surveillance for mosquito-borne diseases would likely translate into an exponential increase in both the number of human cases and the health costs when a disease outbreak occurs,…
Genetic markers offer new clues about how malaria mosquitoes evade eradication
— 26 Oct 2010 13:41 | HealthThe development and first use of a high-density SNP array for the malaria vector mosquito have established 400,000 genetic markers capable of revealing new insights into how the insect…