People can train mosquitoes to stay away from their skins by constantly swatting them away, a recent study said. This is the...
Alphabet Inc.’s Verily Life Sciences unit, one of the biggest tech companies around, is set to release around 20 million bacteria-filled mosquitoes...
An alarming 50 of pregnant women in Puerto Rico are becoming infected with the dreaded Zika virus daily, US Health authorities announced...
The first case of a person possibly infected with West Nile Virus (WNV) in Pennsylvania has been detected in an Indiana County...
In the wake of the Zika virus outbreak, killing mosquitoes that bear and spread the disease has become a priority across the...
Researchers say that an experimental malaria vaccine seems to prevent the disease in half the people who have tried it for up...
Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, or DDT, was created in 1874 and eventually became a widely used synthetic insecticide after the discovery of its application for killing...
Using the revolutionary and increasingly popular gene editing technique CRISPR-Cas9, scientists with the University of California have genetically engineered a strain of...
Arctic mosquitoes are thriving as a result of warming temperatures and not only are they growing faster and emerging sooner, they’re placing...
Mosquitoes use their powerful sense of smell to track down their prey, according to a new study. According to The National Monitor,...
A couple of professors at the University of Arizona have managed to walk away with a $150,000 grand prize after beating 38...
Montana public health officials have reported the first case of West Nile Virus of the year in Rosebud County. NBC Montana reported...
In a development which could lead to a drastic reduction in the population of dengue and yellow fever carrying Aedes aegypti mosquitoes,...
A new study has found that Chikungunya virus and rheumatoid arthritis present similar symptoms and even test results, emphasizing the importance of...