Could making buffets for mosquitoes help us learn about their preferences for human hosts?
Mosquitoes use scent cues to locate humans to feed upon, but do some humans smell more appealing than others, and if so, why?
Mosquitoes use scent cues to locate humans to feed upon, but do some humans smell more appealing than others, and if so, why?
Researchers at the University of Kentucky undertook the first study and characterization of the microbiota of an ascarid parasite, of an equine… Read more »
Krisztian Magori reviews a recent study demonstrating that flaviviruses make mice (and people) produce more of the volatile… Read more »
As part of our Scientists of the Future series, we talk to Matteo (Nello) Gregori, PhD Student at the University of Warwick, on… Read more »
Significant changes in gut microbial composition (gut dysbiosis) are induced by infection with the soil-transmitted helminth… Read more »
Today, Riccardo Scotti and Cinzia Cantacessi discuss the 'MICrobiome HELminth INteractions database' (MICHELINdb), an online… Read more »
Krisztian Magori (@BiteOfAMosquito) summarizes a recently published paper in Parasites & Vectors on how sarcoptic mange mites… Read more »
The microbiome consists of all the various bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microbes living in and on an organism and can have a… Read more »
The open access journal Gut Pathogens launched in 2009 and its growth has followed the fast-paced developments of the field in the… Read more »
Compared to bacteria and fungus, the airborne viral microbiome in built environments, is relatively understudied. Recently… Read more »