Anthony James doesn’t dislike mosquitoes. He just doesn’t want them to transmit malaria. The UC Irvine vector biologist has earned international acclaim for tinkering with mosquito genetics to prevent ...

Mathematical formulas that model how deadly mosquito-borne diseases spread can help medical researchers accurately predict how real-life outbreaks develop and find countermeasures, report scientists.

Richard Oxborough plucked a vial of human blood from the rack on his lab bench. The UNLV researcher warmed the blood and fed it to a colony of mosquitoes. The critters won’t be quite as voracious as ...

Last summer a team of undergraduate students from various universities used entomologist Rebecca Trout Fryxell's data to link mosquito population growth with precipitation and temperatures. This year ...