How fruit flies mate may hold a key to limiting the spread of diseases by mosquitoes.
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The method involves using low-dose X-rays to render male mosquitoes unable to reproduce. Male mosquitoes don't bite and won’t have contact with people or spread disease.
Researchers at the University of Iowa have uncovered a gene in fruit flies that plays a crucial role in their courtship ...
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Diptera.ai believes that the key to culling disease-carrying mosquito populations is by unleashing carefully sorted, sterilized male mosquitoes.
A study on fruit flies completed by researchers with Macquarie University suggests that genetic modification of male mosquitoes could help minimise the spread of illnesses linked with the insects.
Australian researchers have developed a method to genetically modify male mosquitoes to produce venom proteins, which are transferred to females during mating, shortening their lifespan and ...
Instead of creating new types of pesticides or machines to eliminate the abundance of disease-carrying mosquitoes, a group of researchers from Australia have engineered 'Toxic Male' mosquitoes to ...