CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...
Billionaire Bill Gates funds the world’s largest mosquito factory in Medellín, Colombia — which is part of the World Mosquito Program — and releases “thousands” of altered mosquitoes per week using ...
The British biotech firm, Oxitec, has developed super mosquitoes as a potential tool to stamp out malaria, a disease responsible for more than half a million deaths a year, and it is backed by none ...
On June 26, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an alert after five cases of malaria were confirmed, the first locally acquired cases of the disease in the United States in ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bring on the genetically modified mosquitoes, Bill Gates says. . Using a mechanism known as a “gene drive", the researchers say they can quickly push an alteration through an entire ...
Bill Gates shared a video on Instagram showcasing VectorCam, an app developed by Dr. Soumya Acharya's team at Johns Hopkins University. The app can identify mosquito species and their behaviors, ...