In the study, researchers created mosquitoes with a mutant olfactory gene that disrupted the insects' sense of smell. The mutant mosquitoes failed to respond to human scent except in the presence ...

Now the US Department of Defence has awarded a million dollar grant to insect specialists Andrew Nuss and Dennis Mathew, to create genetically engineered mosquitoes that are not attracted to people.

Mosquitoes in Tanzania's Morogoro region developed insecticide resistance Researchers are calling for urgent research into how this resistance has spread They are responsible for more than 700,000 ...

Campers, take comfort: Scientists have found a way to genetically alter mosquitoes so they lose their preference for the scent of humans. The pesky insects hunt down their hosts using odor cues ...

Leslie Vosshall, neurobiologist at The Rockefeller University, discovered the genes that help insects sense ... enzymes) into mosquito embryos and bred those mutant offspring (that showed less ...

MOSQUITOES have genetically mutated to survive insecticide, scientists have found. Malaria-carrying insects which can resist the long-banned pesticide DDT have been discovered in Tanzania for the ...

How they did it In their experiment, the researchers knocked out the mosquito gene responsible for producing the IR21a receptor. They then placed about 60 of the mutant insects into a shoebox-sized ...

To keep the mutant mosquitoes fed outside of these experiments, Laursen and his lab mates will bring the bugs extra blood, or blow into their cage to spike the air with carbon dioxide. They also ...

The insects were truly deaf ... case triggering the production of those green fluorescent proteins. Now the mutant mosquitoes would produce green fluorescent protein in all the places that ...

as well as the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia - showed the population of wild Aedes aegypti insects dropped by 90% after the mutant mosquitoes were released. Oxitec does not yet have a sales ...