as well as see differences in these paths between male and female mosquitoes. Pathogens spread by the mosquito Aedes aegypti infect some 400 million people a year, of which about 100 million ...

They knocked out this gene in some male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, resulting in deaf insects that did not respond to sound. When the study authors placed the deaf males in chambers with the females ...

The method involves using low-dose X-rays to render male mosquitoes unable to reproduce. Male mosquitoes don't bite and won’t have contact with people or spread disease.

By making the male mosquitoes the bearer of diseases that ... According to the study, species like Aedes aegypti and Anopheles gambiae, only the females bite humans and transmit diseases as ...

Research is under way overseas to use genetic engineering to eradicate the mosquitoes. A British company, Oxitec Ltd., created male Aedes aegypti that cannot produce offspring. Among mosquitoes ...

GENETICALLY engineered "toxic male" mosquitoes could help kill ... It's only the females of mosquito species like Aedes aegypti and Anopheles gambiae that actually bite humans.

Male insects carrying venom proteins transferred these to disease-spreading females ... They developed computer models to simulate conventional interventions and TMT to predict their ability to ...

In mosquitoes like Aedes aegypti and Anopheles gambiae ... While these mated females produce no offspring or only male offspring, they continue to blood-feed and spread disease until they die ...