Texas Calls In US Air Force to Counter Post-Storm Surge In MosquitoesSeptember 13, 2017 |
Texas has launched aerial attacks on mosquitoes swarming coastal regions of the state and threatening to spread disease and hinder disaster recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey
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The Case for Sharing All of America’s Data on MosquitoesAugust 24, 2017 |
The US is sitting on one of the largest data sets on any animal group, but most of it is inaccessible and restricted to local agencies
Quick ReadIt sounds counterintuitive. But the plan is to release millions of sterile male mosquitoes, which will then mate with wild female mosquitoes. The eggs the females lay won’t hatch, researchers say
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For more than half a century, scientists have dreamed of harnessing an odd quirk of nature— “selfish genes,” which bypass the normal 50/50 laws of inheritance and force their way into offspring—to engineer entire species. But after all the hype, and fear of the technology’s misuse, scientists are now questioning whether gene drives will work at all
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The company, an arm of Alphabet, is using mosquitoes infected with a sterilizing bacteria to test whether they can stop dengue and Zika
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Five percent of pregnant women with a confirmed Zika infection in the United States territories, including Puerto Rico, went on to have a baby with a related birth defect, according to the most comprehensive report to date from federal officials
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“Hi-C” will make it much easier and cheaper to assemble all of an organism’s genetic material from scratch
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Micaela Delgado is a beautiful dark-eyed baby girl with a ready smile. She’s eight months old. She’s one of more than 1,000 babies already born in Puerto Rico to mothers with Zika
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