The Anopheles mosquito's salivary gland is made up of three lobes of saliva-producing cells. The lobes are encased in a protective sheet called the basement membrane, and in each lobe are long ...

Mosquito 'spit glands' hold key to curbing malaria, study shows Research reveals details of salivary gland 'bottleneck' that holds back malaria-causing parasites ...

This dead mosquito’s saliva glands are being harvested by researchers using two tiny syringes. They hope to use the insect’s tainted spit to manufacture malaria vaccine more efficiently in the ...

Humans have an exceptional ability to deal with viruses. In most cases, your immune system is able to fight an infection. On ...

Salivary gland expression system allows mosquitoes to deliver antibody-inducing antigens, as reported in Insect Molecular Biology.. Japanese researchers have managed to engineer mosquitoes into ...

Female mosquito salivary glands could unlock key to malaria transmission. Story by Science X staff • 22m. M alaria, responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year worldwide, ...

The fungus alone had a weak effect on the invasion of the salivary glands by Plasmodium, dropping it by 15 percent. But the engineered fungi dropped it by anywhere from 75 to 90 percent.

The genetic modification causes mosquitoes to produce compounds in their guts that stunt the growth of parasites, meaning they are unlikely to reach the mosquitoes' salivary glands and be passed ...

Mosquito-borne diseases are those that are transmitted to people through the bite of an infected mosquito. The diseases spread by mosquitoes can be caused by a parasite, as in the case of malaria, or ...

"Even though thousands of parasites invade the salivary gland, less than a 10th of them are transmitted during a mosquito bite," says Michael Wells, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher in Andrew's ...