Study highlights the potential of mosquito gene-modification to combat malaria

Findings could speed elimination of malaria, including its drug-resistant forms

Hosts who swat at mosquitoes or perform other defensive behaviors may be abandoned, no matter how sweet.

UCR researchers are generating genetically engineered insects to help prevent the spread of infectious diseases

Antimalarial bacteria and immune-boosted mosquitoes show strong potential to spread in the wild

ViroStat has released a new set of monoclonal antibodies to the NS1 protein of the virus

Researchers hope that by precisely modulating how our immune system responds to infection, they can develop new therapies that can be used to treat people with these serious diseases

A UF/IFAS research team collected 20 female and 19 male Aedes albopictus mosquitoes as eggs, raised them to adults and tested the adults for the Zika virus RNA

Multi-institutional team reports a method—called 3D genome assembly—that can create a human reference genome, entirely from scratch, for less than $10,000

Sandia prototype dramatically cuts cost, time for detection of mosquito-borne illness