Mosquitoes’ Scent Based Host Seeking Mechanism Revealed

New findings on the brain of the mosquito might help researchers get closer to combating mosquito-borne illnesses like malaria and yellow fever, which still harm millions of people. The study reveals mosquitoes' scent based host seeking mechanism.

The process by which female mosquitoes select their victims using scent has been discovered by an international research team.

Researchers from Princeton University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) discovered that w...

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