One of the main challenges hindering the expansion of the program to spread Wolbachia-infected mosquitos in dozens of other ...

The reed leafhopper (Pentastiridius leporinus) was originally a specialist, limited exclusively to reed grass as a food ...

In a victory for public health and the environment, the British biotech firm Oxitec and CSIRO have withdrawn their application to commercially release millions of genetically engineered mosquitoes ...

Native Hawaiian honeycreeper birds are being wiped out by avian malaria. Scientists think they can battle the problem by releasing more mosquitoes.

Researchers at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have imaged a heritable form of bacterial symbiosis inside the ...

Within a few years, however, it developed into a dangerous pest that attacks not only reed grass but also sugar beets, potatoes, carrots, and onions. Although the insect itself causes only minor ...

A global health group breaks down exactly where the promise lies in using genetically modified mosquitoes to eliminate ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

Drones are being used in Hawaii to drop biodegradable pods containing 1,000 male mosquitoes each. These non-biting mosquitoes carry a bacterium.

Eventual genetic engineering of Wolbachia will require maximizing recovery of infectious bacteria, maintaining Wolbachia in a viable state for efficient manipulation, and reinfection of host cells for ...