Discovery could shrink dengue-spreading mosquito population

Thursday, December 2, 2010 - 16:31 in Biology & Nature

A team of entomologists has identified a microRNA in female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that when deactivated disrupts the mosquito's blood digestion and egg development -- a discovery that could help control the spread of not only dengue and yellow fever but potentially all vector-borne diseases.

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