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 Date: August 12, 2019 Source ...

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

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 ...

After feeding on an infected bird, the virus circulates in the blood of the mosquito for a few days until it reaches the salivary gland. When next the mosquito takes a blood meal from a person, the ...

Mosquitoes spread malaria. Now researchers hope that a gene drive technology could turn them into malaria fighters. Although not every scientist thinks it's a good idea to genetically modify a ...

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.

First, the team found that Nest1 was highly expressed in the salivary glands of blood-fed female mosquitoes. “ [That finding] is absolutely key, because females are the ones biting, the males aren't,” ...

Smells produced by humans are a big part of what draws mosquitoes to us. In a study, scientists helped pinpoint the chemicals in body odor that attract the insects.

Scientists have engineered mosquitoes that cannot give humans malaria, saying their work could potentially eliminate the disease. Researchers at Imperial College London genetically modified the ...

To study how the salivary gland might obstruct malaria transmission, the researchers first let Anopheles mosquitoes feed on rodent blood enriched with malaria parasites.