The programme will cover over 800,000 households - half of Singapore's homes - by year-end, said the National Environment ...

The National Environment Agency (NEA) will be expanding Project Wolbachia to five new areas — Bukit Panjang, Little India, ...

Project Wolbachia expands to more areas in Singapore, exceeding its target for dengue prevention by controlling mosquito populations. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The fight against dengue fever has a new weapon: a mosquito infected with the bacteria Wolbachia, which prevents the spread of the virus. These mosquitoes have now been deployed in several trials ...

Despite having been formalized as a species in 1936, Wolbachia pipientis remains an elusive microbe. The reason why relates to the relationship it establishes with its hosts. Wolbachia lives inside ...

When fruit flies are infected with the Wolbachia bacteria, their sex lives—and ability to reproduce—change dramatically. Arizona State University scientist Timothy Karr decided to find out why. What ...

New research on Joro spiders by Georgia Gwinnett College found the invasive critters carry a bacteria that can cause them to go sterile. Wolbachia, a common bacteria found in about half of all insects ...

Releasing sterile wolbachia-infected male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes into the wild may reduce vector populations and dengue infection risk. The percentage of residents who tested positive for dengue ...

Because of the diseases they carry, mosquitoes are responsible for the loss of more human lives each year than any other species, including humans. Their bites transmit a range of parasites and ...

A new study led by researchers at Penn State has uncovered how a widespread bacteria called Wolbachia and a virus that it carries can cause sterility in male insects by hijacking their sperm messenger ...