The fight against infectious disease is a race against evolution. Bacteria become . Viruses . Diseases transmitted by insects present another evolutionary front: Insects themselves can evolve resistance to the poisons that people use to kill them. In particular, the mosquito-borne disease malaria . , people have battled malaria with insecticides — chemical weapons intended to kill Anopheles mosquitoes infected with … Read more
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in Florida are most resistant to a common insecticide around dusk but most susceptible between midnight and dawn, a new study finds. A key contributing factor observed by researchers is that five key genes that produce detoxifying enzymes in the mosquitoes are affected by changes in light over 24-hour cycles. Here, a … Read more
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