In a victory for public health and the environment, the British biotech firm Oxitec and CSIRO have withdrawn their ...

Containers hold genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes before being released in Panama City, Panama, in September 2014. The fight against the Zika virus has a new weapon: the genetically ...

A global health group breaks down exactly where the promise lies in using genetically modified mosquitoes to eliminate ...

Summer barbecues have a special place in my heart. The smell of charcoal-grilled burgers. Ice-cold fizzy drinks. Music, laughs—and the incessant buzzing of mosquitoes. While mostly a nuisance at ...

Mosquitoes kill more people each year than any other animal. In 2023, the blood-sucking insects infected a reported 263 million people with malaria, leading to nearly 600,000 deaths, 80% of which were ...

Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes are being released across Florida designed to stop the spread of deadly diseases ...

A genetically modified male mosquito named OX5034 has received both state and federal approval to be released into the Florida Keys now through 2022, against the objection of many local residents and ...

Genetically modified mosquito larvae express fluorescent markers of the FREP1 gene — RFP (pink), GFP (blue) or both (yellow) — to indicate whether they spread or block infection from malarial ...

Getting rid of mosquitoes might sound like a dream come true—especially to those who’ve endured itchy bites or battled mosquito-borne diseases. But the idea of eradicating them entirely raises all ...

The grantmaking organization Open Philanthropy has awarded funding for a University of California San Diego technology ...