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Zika virus prevention method: Use mosquito to kill mosquitoes
While waiting for the vaccine, scientists have proposed the idea of using mutated mosquitoes to prevent Zika virus from spreading.
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Understanding the Zika virus 'eating human brain' is especially dangerous
Recently, the Ministry of Health of Vietnam expressed concern about the possibility of appearing virus species eating dangerous human brain in the country - Zika virus.
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Mosquito-changing mosquitoes
US scientists claim to have successfully cultured genetically modified mosquitoes that can prevent the spread of malaria.
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Giant Arctic mosquitoes thrive because of climate change
Warming temperatures in the Arctic are helping the giant mosquitoes here to flourish and flourish in numbers, potentially threatening to become pandemics in the near fut…
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'Vaccination for mosquitoes': Strange application in the prevention of dengue fever
Dengue fever spreads through mosquitoes, but the strange thing is that Vietnamese scientists are trying to breed this type of mosquito and release it into the environmen…
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How do mosquitoes seek targets to burn?
A new study revealed that mosquitoes target certain targets to burn by using a sequence of three signs: smell, then images and finally heat.
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Change the sex of the mosquito
Recently, American scientists have published an extremely important finding in killing mosquitoes - animals that mediate dangerous diseases such as malaria, dengue fever…
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New breakthrough helps 'kill' mosquitoes on a large scale
Baby mosquitoes that inherit the additional genome that only survives for a short time should reduce the risk of spreading dengue.
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Find an effective and inexpensive mosquito repellent
A group of scientists working in the United States is developing an effective and much cheaper mosquito repellent than the one currently used.
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Experiment with mosquitoes
Panama is expected to become the next country to test the use of the nicknamed transgenic mosquitoes
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Find new ways to control mosquitoes
Scientists have found new perspectives on how to control mosquitoes and dangerous infectious diseases.
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Nanoparticles prevent mosquitoes from reproducing
Indian scientists have succeeded in preventing mosquito growth with a simple mixture of carbon nanoparticles.
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Mosquitoes know how to choose people to burn
Blood or body odor may be the main reason why someone often gets bitten by mosquitoes than others.
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Giant mosquitoes appear in the United States
Gallinipper mosquitoes - scientifically known as Psorophora ciliata - are 20 times larger than normal mosquitoes, which are present in the state of Florida, Southeastern…
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Genetically modified so that mosquitoes can't smell people
American scientists at Rocckefeller University have devised a way to transform mosquito genes, neutralizing their sense of smell for humans, making them not looking for…