Maize pollen, an important food source for mosquito larvae, produces chemicals that encourage egg- carrying Anopheles arabiensis to lay their eggs in maize fields.
Today marks the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States. At the dawn of this new era, we consider the future for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, and the responsibility of the scientific and medical community to combat them.
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Mosquito bites cause an immune response that unwittingly enhances the establishment of mosquito-transmitted diseases.
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A steroidal hormone mimic applied to the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae reduces its reproductive fitness and its ability to transmit malaria.
Our microbiomes have evolved with us over the millenia – or perhaps it is we that have evolved with them. In any case, our relationship with our microbiome is really only now being explored, showing how beneficial and necessary they are to us. In view of this, I am using this New Year’s blog to speculate on how we may use the microbiome in the future.
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