Employees work in a laboratory of the British biotechnology company Oxitec, in Campinas, Brazil, on October 1. The British biotechnology venture that applies genetic modification to produce Aedes ...

Inside a small building in eastern Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Cátia Cabral holds up a jar filled with what looks like fine black pepper. But this ain't pepper. Each granule is actually a tiny mosquito ...

Brazil has unveiled the world's largest biofactory dedicated to breeding mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria, an innovative method poised to safeguard an estimated 140 million people from ...

While warmer months offer plenty of fun activities like beach trips, hikes, and sitting on your porch, they also bring pesky mosquitoes. According to NPR, the warmer, wetter weather is helping ...

Inside a bug-making factory in Rio de Janeiro, a team of workers transfer loads of mosquito larvae to cleaner water. These mosquitoes are special — they've been engineered to shut down the ...