
Deforestation could mean less bats and more viruses
Bats have important roles in the ecosystems they inhabit. Sometimes, they also carry viruses. One study in the Atlantic Forest suggests anthropogenic… Read more »
Bats have important roles in the ecosystems they inhabit. Sometimes, they also carry viruses. One study in the Atlantic Forest suggests anthropogenic… Read more »
Krisztian Magori practices gratitude for the good news on the development of scalable, self-limiting, genetic sexing version of genetically modified… Read more »
A few years ago, this question would have been merely academic for most of the world, but now that we have all experienced the… Read more »
Field studies, conducted in Brazil, have been investigation the distance sand flies will fly to a trap baited with the… Read more »
Recent outbreaks of Yellow fever in Brazil call for fractional dosing to make vaccination stocks stretch further. Meanwhile the… Read more »
With almost 1400 cases and 250 deaths, Brazil is currently experiencing the largest outbreak of yellow fever since the 1940s.… Read more »
We talk to Filipe Dantas-Torres, winner of one of the 2016 Odile Bain Memorial Prizes, about his career to date, the inspiration… Read more »
Variations in the copulation songs that male sandflies sing to their mates determines whether or not insemination is successful
Detection of eggs/ cysts of intestinal parasites in the faeces of infected animals is the gold standard for diagnosing numerous… Read more »
Guest post by Dr Rod J Dillon (@sandflyman) Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, UK. As part of… Read more »