Scary Mosquitoes Creeping North with Climate Change
Krisztian Magori reports on the surprising and unexpected discovery of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in the southern part of the Pacific Northwest region… Read more »
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Fungal compound inhibits transmission of malaria to mosquitoes
Guodong Niu and colleagues have shown that certain leucinostatins from fungal extracts can block the transmission of Plasmodium falciparum to… Read more »
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