Gene editing holds the potential of suppressing mosquito species that carry deadly diseases — and raises ethical questions.

As mosquitoes and mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue fever spread across the world, researchers say that a key strategy to prevent these illnesses may be dissuading the insects from biting their ...

There's an outbreak of the rare mosquito-borne disease Eastern Equine Encephalitis in the Northeast. Could it be connected to climate change? No one knows.

The question is no longer hypothetical. In recent years, scientists have devised powerful genetic tools that may be able to eradicate mosquitoes and other pests once and for all.

Additionally, when the researchers offered mosquitoes human sweat samples, they found that the mosquitoes showed strong biting preferences for some samples over others. “We think this could be part of ...