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 ...

How can a mosquito make you sick? The workings of a tiny vector. It weighs barely a few milligrams, flies relatively quietly, and yet is responsible for millions of illnesses each year: ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Inhibiting the parasite’s development causes a few days’ delay before the next parasite stage could reach the mosquito salivary glands, by which time most mosquitoes in nature are expected to die.

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 ...

Mosquitoes spread malaria. With gene-editing, they could fight it instead : ... "They reduce the number of parasites in the mosquito, most importantly in the salivary gland, ...

After developing in the mosquito’s stomach, the parasite “will migrate to the salivary glands and then be spat back out into the skin of another human host when the mosquito blood-feeds again ...

"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 ...