Could eliminating mosquitoes' sense of hearing be the key to eliminating mosquito-borne diseases like dengue, yellow fever, ...

For the first time, a San Bernardino County resident has been infected with dengue virus locally in the city of San ...

More than 65,000 cases of dengue have been recorded in Bangladesh at the start of November, as climate change turns the disease into a year-round crisis, leaving some paediatric wards packed with ...

Scientists may have found a unique way to fight mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue, yellow fever and Zika -- by turning ...

Researchers have found a novel method to stop the spread of diseases such as dengue, Zika, and yellow fever by making ...

“We found that mating was abolished in deaf males, demonstrating that hearing and TRPVa are essential for male mating ...

With reference to an experiment conducted by a team from the University of California, Irvine ... Scientists believe the ...

A team from the University of California studied Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which annually infect approximately 400 million ...

Male mosquitoes that fail to hear potential females do not end up mating — a phenomenon that could have major implications ...

With dengue fever spreading to colder climates, Island Pharmaceuticals is working on a preventative and therapeutic solution.

Scientists have developed a novel method to curb mosquito-borne diseases by making male mosquitoes deaf, hindering their ability to find females and mate.

In their experiment, the researchers modified a genetic pathway that male mosquitoes use for hearing. The outcome was that these genetically modified males did not make any physical contact with ...