You are enjoying a warm summer evening outdoors, and you feel the familiar, itchy pinch of a mosquito bite.

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of prehistoric human ancestors.

Evolution is perhaps the most extraordinary story ever told—a tale spanning billions of years that connects every living thing on Earth through an intricate ...

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Seventy years after dengue first took root in the Philippines, the country still records some of the highest case numbers in Southeast Asia despite the fact that most deaths are preventable. One year ...

Ghaziabad: Death caused by dengue does not qualify as an \"accident\", the district consumer disputes redressal commission has ruled, rejecting a claim .

In the rapidly disappearing Atlantic Forest, mosquitoes are adapting to a human-dominated landscape. Scientists found that many species now prefer feeding on people rather than the forest’s diverse ...

Scientists find ARK1 protein vital for malaria parasite division; disabling it halts replication and transmission, offering a ...

Mosquitoes have been biting people for more than a million years and probably much longer. An analysis of 38 modern mosquitoes’ DNA suggests an ancestral mosquito species developed a preference for ...

Dengue is a mosquito-borne virus affecting millions of people each year, with symptoms ranging from flu-like illness to severe bleeding and organ failure. Scientists are now using Wolbachia, a ...

A scourge of mosquitoes has been terrorizing residents of El Segundo for the past two months — and the situation is only getting worse. Residents say they are covered in bites and welts despite trying ...