Medical research
Looking to mosquitos for a way to develop painless microneedles
A mosquito can insert a needle-like probe into your skin and draw blood for several minutes without you even noticing.
Jun 25, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dengue 'hot spots' provide map to chikungunya and Zika outbreaks
Identifying dengue fever "hot spots" can provide a predictive map for outbreaks of chikungunya and Zika—two other viral diseases that, along with dengue, are spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
May 11, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Children infected with malaria parasites produce odour more attractive to mosquitoes
Children infected with the malaria parasite Plasmodium were found to produce distinctive skin smells making them more attractive to malaria mosquitoes than uninfected children, according to new research published in Proceedings ...
Apr 16, 2018
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Neuroscience
Pesky mosquitoes provide neural implant solution
Brain scientists face a dilemma: Conventional wire implants are rigid and can sometimes traumatize that sensitive, vital organ; but softer materials now being tested by researchers, have their own problems—they often bend ...
Apr 6, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Gene knockout using new CRISPR tool makes mosquitoes highly resistant to malaria parasite
Deleting a single gene from mosquitoes can make them highly resistant to the malaria parasite and thus much less likely to transmit the parasite to humans, according to a new paper from scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg ...
Mar 8, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Infection mechanism of Rift Valley fever virus identified
Rift Valley fever virus, transmitted by mosquitoes, is responsible for outbreaks in livestock in Africa and can also be fatal in humans. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS, working with the University of Göttingen, ...
Nov 10, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Promising results for two genetic weapons against malaria
Two new papers by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Malaria Research Institute report successes for highly promising strategies against malaria, a disease that still kills more than 400,000 ...
Sep 28, 2017
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Neuroscience
Scientists discover combined sensory map for heat, humidity in fly brain
Northwestern University neuroscientists now can visualize how fruit flies sense and process humidity and temperature together through a "sensory map" within their brains, according to new research.
Jul 20, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Malaria drug protects fetuses from Zika infection
Devastating consequences of Zika virus infection are suffered in the womb, where the virus can cause brain damage and sometimes death.
Jul 10, 2017
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Researchers use light to manipulate mosquitoes
Scientists at the University of Notre Dame have found that exposure to just 10 minutes of light at night suppresses biting and manipulates flight behavior in the Anopheles gambiae mosquito, the major vector for transmission ...
Jun 16, 2017
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