The research took place at the DeLuca Preserve, a protected conservation area managed by the University of Florida about 80 ...

Jurassic Park—and its never-ending sequels and spinoffs—starts with a basic premise: extracting the DNA of long-dead ...

Look forward to bugs dying in cold weather? What we know about why some big mosquitoes could still bite you this winter, even ...

Malaria mosquitoes track humans by scent, not random flight, revealing why some people are bitten more at night.

Mosquitoes are attracted to a combination of cues, including body odour (especially lactic acid), carbon dioxide, heat, skin ...

Researchers have developed a new "color-coded" genetic method that makes it easy to distinguish male and female mosquitoes.

Along with a mild fever, symptoms of the mosquito-borne illness include bone-deep, aching pain in the joints and behind the ...

In the 1993 blockbuster film Jurassic Park, scientists brought dinosaurs back into existence by extracting their DNA from blood sucked by mosquitoes that had been frozen in amber.

Jenny Carlson Donnelly traveled to malaria-affected countries to test mosquitoes and save lives. Then she lost her job at U.S ...

Scientists use CRISPR to create a Genetic Sexing Strain of mosquitoes. Male and female mosquitoes can now be separated easily ...

In a new study published in Nature, scientists have successfully developed genetically modified mosquitoes in Tanzania that ...

Israeli, German, and French scientists say they have created a gene-editing approach that makes it far simpler to sort male ...