That’s how neuroscientist Meg Younger describes her team’s findings about how skeeters hone in on human aromas. And that could lead to better ways to keep us bite- and disease-free.
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On Orders From Mao, Researchers Set Off On Nobel-Winning Drug Work
In the 1960s, Chairman Mao Zedong ordered scientists to find a malaria antidote to help ailing soldiers in North Vietnam. Today’s Nobel Prize for medicine went to one of those researchers.
Mosquitoes Can Smell Inside Your Blood
When malaria parasites infect blood, they manufacture odor molecules that smell sweet to mosquitoes, scientists report. So how do these odors get from the bloodstream to the insects?