How do you turn a mosquito's genes on and off?

Monday, July 11, 2016 - 16:31 in Biology & Nature

A microscope image shows a four-segment section of the nervous system of an Aedes aegypti mosquito embryo. The dark purple indicates areas where a gene called "short gastrulation " is being... Scientists are using machine learning to identify important sequences of DNA within the mosquito genome that regulate how the insect's cells develop and behave.

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