"It's really exciting to work with something that has not been engineered by man and unlock some of the secrets." Scientists are developing a groundbreaking method to eliminate potentially fatal ...

We irradiate them, drain their habitats, breed them experimentally in laboratories to confound their DNA. We’ve known for more than a century that a mosquito’s bite can pass on brutal disease ...

Some of the National Mosquito Collection specimens are frozen to preserve DNA. Yvonne Linton, Smithsonian What is it like managing a collection so large? Almost every single day that I go into ...

For example, we manipulate a pathway to prevent mosquitoes from transmitting viral diseases. We also develop diagnostics so that people can detect in the field if an insect is infected with a pathogen ...

Mosquito books line the shelves ... delete, and rearrange the DNA of nearly any living organism, including us. In the past three years, the technology has transformed biology.

Curt Wagner is smiling this week, and for good reason. Wagner is the fisheries management supervisor in the ODNR Division of Wildlife District 3 office in Akron. He joined the crews staffing the ...