Researchers from Brigham Young University and the University of Utah developed an innovative gene-editing technique that modifies mosquito DNA to prevent them from carrying malaria. The novel ...

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.

The research shows that mosquitoes prefer to feed on sugar from ... While this can be done through DNA barcoding (by analyzing the DNA of ingested plant material), it may be challenging to extract ...

To learn more about its origins, Lindy McBride at Princeton University and her colleagues analysed the DNA of 790 mosquitoes from 44 countries around the world, including the molestus and pipiens ...

To test their hypothesis, the UF team caught mosquitoes at three specific sites where the agama has taken over, then used DNA analysis to show which animals the insects had feasted on. Next ...