Gene expression in mosquitoes can be silenced by systemic injection of double-stranded RNA. This image relates to an article that appeared in the March 11, 2010, issue of Science Express, published by ...

As mosquitoes and mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue fever spread across the world, researchers say that a key strategy to prevent these illnesses may be dissuading the insects from biting their ...

While a mosquito bite is often no more than a temporary bother, in many parts of the world it can be scary. One mosquito species, Aedes aegypti, spreads the viruses that cause over 100,000,000 cases ...