Tuesday 8 April 2014

Researchers Target Sperm Protection in Combating Spread of Malaria-Carrying Mosquitoes

Researchers claim their new method of reducing fertility of malaria-carrying mosquitoes can help provide a new way of combating the spread of the disease. Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes are the main transmitters of malaria, which affects around 200 million people every year. The females mate only once during their lives. They store the sperm from this single mating in an organ called the spermatheca, from which they repeatedly take sperm over the course of their ...

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