Researchers to Target Mosquito Egg Production to Curtail Disease
Friday, July 13, 2018 - 19:30
in Biology & Nature
Entomologists at the University of California, Riverside have received a five-year grant of $2.44 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, or NIAID, to investigate the role hormones play in the female mosquito’s ability to use human blood for egg production. Vector mosquitoes need vertebrate blood to develop each batch of their […]