GENETICALLY engineered “toxic male” mosquitoes could help kill off disease-spreading females. Scientists say the gene-hacked ...

Female mosquitoes are targeted because only they bite and drink blood, thereby spreading diseases such as malaria and dengue ...

A study on fruit flies completed by researchers with Macquarie University suggests that genetic modification of male ...

Diseases such as malaria, dengue, Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever are spread by the females of the Aedes aegypti and ...

Australian researchers have developed a method to genetically modify male mosquitoes to produce venom proteins, which are ...

Mosquitoes looking to mate in Australia are about to have the worst sex of their lives – thanks to genetic modifications ...

There are also numerous reports demonstrating mosquitoes don’t bite when they land on DEET-treated skin. This is because DEET ...

Mosquitoes are able to survive prolonged droughts by drinking blood, which helps to explain how their populations quickly ...

Australian researchers engineered a new way to hinder the reproduction of disease-carrying mosquitoes using the TMT.