18-07-03 Microsoft founder Bill Gates is pouring $4 million into a project to create killer mosquitoes that destroy each other through sex. 微软创始人比尔盖茨将投资400万美元（约合2654万元人民币），用以培育能够在交配中杀死对方的杀手蚊。 Its a bold bid to curb...

16-05-24 1. People with type O blood tend to attract more mosquitoes than people with other blood types. 2. Malaria carrying mosquitoes were attracted to pregnant women twice as much as non-pregnant women in a study. In light of Zikas link to birth defects,...

15-07-01 Scientists behind the first global distribution maps of two species of dengue and chikungunya-carrying mosquitoes warn they are spreading to new areas where they could cause disease. The population of the tiger mosquito, which is known to carry deng...

15-05-27 Males aren't relevant -- at least when it comes to disease transmission by mosquitoes. Researchers with the Fralin Life Science Institute at Virginia Tech have identified a gene responsible for sex determination in mosquitoes that can transmit yello...

15-03-04 Small semi-aqueous arthropods, such as mosquitoes and water striders, are free to go about their waterborne business thanks to their unique leg-based adaptations, which repel water and allow them to float freely on the surface. By examining the forc...

14-09-25 Brazilian researchers in Rio de Janeiro have released thousands of mosquitoes infected with bacteria that suppress dengue fever. 巴西研究人员在里约热内卢释放了数千只感染了细菌的蚊子，该细菌可以抑制登革热。 The hope is they will multiply, breed and b...

13-12-06 Female mosquitoes, which can transmit deadly diseases like malaria, dengue fever, West Nile virus and filariasis, are attracted to us by smelling the carbon dioxide we exhale, being capable of tracking us down even from a distance. But once they get...

13-08-01 Honduras has declared a state of emergency after an outbreak of dengue fever which has killed 16 people so far this year. 洪都拉斯爆发了一波登革热感染，政府宣布进入紧急状态，今年此次感染至今已造成16人死亡。 More than 12,000 people have been diagnose...

13-05-23 Malaria-carrying mosquitoes appear to be manipulated by the parasites they carry, but this manipulation may simply be part of the mosquitoes' immune response, according to Penn State entomologists. Normally, after a female mosquito ingests a blood m...

13-05-10 Scientists funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have established an inheritable bacterial infection in malaria-transmitting Anopheles mosquitoes that renders them imm...