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Preventing diseases by stopping mosquitoes reproduce

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12 January 2019 by angel

Mosquitoes are the deadliest creatures on Earth. Each year, nearly a million people die from a disease they caught from one of the tiny insects. Rather than focusing on finding a cure for bug-borne diseases like malaria and Zika, a team of scientists from the University of Arizona decided to focus their research directly on mosquitoes. In the process, they found a protein seemingly essential for mosquito reproduction and the discovery could lead to the creation of a drug that acts as birth control for the tiny killers. https://futurism.com/the-byte/mosquito-birth-control-prevent-deaths


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