A study on fruit flies completed by researchers with Macquarie University suggests that genetic modification of male ...

THERE IS AN EFFORT DEEP IN THE WOODS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IN COLLIER COUNTY THAT COULD STOP THE SPREAD OF DISEASE CARRYING ...

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

Scientists from Australia have developed a groundbreaking technique involving genetically engineered mosquitoes with ’toxic’ semen. This method could be a new weapon to combat deadly mosquito-borne ...

A genetic biocontrol method which reduces the lifespan of female insects could work as fast as pesticides to reduce ...

Zika virus struck the Americas hard ... the genes of Africa's native mosquitoes. "The mosquito species that spreads Zika has two forms, each with different feeding preferences and capacity ...

Australian researchers engineered a new way to hinder the reproduction of disease-carrying mosquitoes using the TMT.

Mosquitoes are the latest cause of major concern for residents of the Vasai-Virar area where the civic body claims it is ...

Diseases such as malaria, dengue, Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever are spread by the females of the Aedes aegypti and ...