The gut-hormone axis significantly influences women's health, impacting menstrual cycles, mood, and conditions like PMS and PCOS. Gut dysbiosis disrupts estrogen metabolism and increases ...

Female offspring are targeted as only female Anopheles mosquitoes can spread malaria. Another solution is to use natural predators such as copepods, which are a type of crustation.

A new malaria mosquito is emerging in African cities, with potentially devastating consequences for those living there, according to a new study. The larvae of Anopheles stephensi – India’s ...

A new study offers a wealth of information about the rhythmic nature of gene expression in Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito species that transmits the malaria parasite from person to person. Each ...

By feeding on blood-fed female Anopheles at a time of day when the mosquitoes tend to rest after a blood meal, sexually mature spiders attain a "perfume" that makes them alluring to the opposite sex.

Of all the thousands of mosquito types tormenting vertebrates, only a handful, named Anopheles, transmit malarial parasites in their bite. The deadly microorganism they inject is Plasmodium falciparum ...

Known as Anopheles stephensi (A. stephensi), the mosquito transmits Plasmodium vivax - one of five plasmodium parasites that cause malaria.

Plasmodium must then cross the Anopheles mosquito’s gut and become established in their salivary glands, at which point it can be transmitted to another human when the mosquito feeds again.