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Forcing Mosquitos to Switch Sex May Eradicate Dengue Fever and Other Serious Pathogens

Medicine & Technology May 26, 2015

If the battle of the sexes was fought by mosquitoes, it would already be over. Researchers from Virginia Tech's Fralin Life Science Institute has discovered that male mosquitoes aren't relevant at all, at least in the realm of transmissible diseases.

genomic black holes

Forcing Mosquitos to Switch Sex May Eradicate Dengue Fever and Other Serious Pathogens

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