Scratching where it itches reduces the presence of potentially harmful bacteria on the skin, studies in mice show.

Scratching an itch can bring a contradictory wave of pleasure and misery. A mouse study on scratching, reported in the Jan. 31 Science, fleshes out this ...

This 'toxic male technique' aims to quickly suppress mosquito-borne disease outbreaks like dengue fever, which impacts millions worldwide. In a bid to control the mosquito population, Australian ...

Itch-scratching is a paradox. It can be both bad and good for you, a new scientific study suggests. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT ...

Until now, most "modified mosquito" research has focused on creating males that mate with wild females and cause them to only create male young or stop them from producing offspring entirely.

At ASU, Grounds Services and Environmental Health and Safety workers are treating areas of standing water with VectoBac, a poison that lacerates the gut of mosquito larvae, causing the insect to ...

Genetically modified mosquitoes with poisonous semen could soon be deployed in a bid to take out the disease carrying female mosquitoes. Researchers from the government funded CSIRO have worked ...

Researchers from the government funded CSIRO have worked with UK company Oxitec Ltd to develop a genetically modified species of mosquito that will hopefully see blood-feasting and disease ...

Genetically modified mosquitoes with poisonous semen will soon be deployed in a bid to take out the disease carrying female mosquitoes plaguing Queensland. Researchers from the government funded ...

Researchers from the government funded CSIRO have worked with UK company Oxitec Ltd to develop a genetically modified species of mosquito that will hopefully see blood-feasting and disease ...