Scientists found that female mosquitoes, which transmit the microbes that kill millions of people every year, lose interest in human blood if their appetites are suppressed with the chemicals. The ...

Scratching away at your mosquito bites after spending the day outside? Those irritable itches are a reaction to mosquito bites. But what causes your skin to react that way? Here’s more on why ...

A drug approved to treat rare genetic diseases can also make human blood toxic to the mosquitoes that spread malaria, a new study finds. The drug, called nitisinone, is currently used to treat two ...

In the fight against malaria, controlling the mosquito population is crucial. Several methods are currently used to reduce mosquito numbers and malaria risk. One of these includes the antiparasitic ...

A UCF research team has engineered tissue with human cells that mosquitoes love to bite and feed upon - with the goal of helping fight deadly diseases transmitted by the biting insects. A ...

A drug that makes human blood lethal to mosquitoes also acts as a potent contact insecticide absorbed through the feet, providing a promising new approach to combating insecticide resistance. A new ...

In a bid to fight malaria, researchers are coming up with new solutions to reduce the spike across the world. One of the ways to do so is to control the mosquito population. Malaria is a vector-borne ...

Here’s more on why mosquitoes bite, how your body reacts to those bites and why. Why do mosquitoes bite people? Both male and female mosquitoes feed on flower nectar, but female mosquitoes also forage ...