Low doses of a drug already approved for treating rare genetic conditions in humans kills mosquitoes dead. Scientists say it ...

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections ...

Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, and South Sudan—combat pests like desert locusts, ...

The Kenya Tsetse Fly and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Council (KENTTEC) has suspended a recruitment process after the state dissolved the corporation. In a notice on February 25, the parastatal ...

The immune system responds to an infection by producing antibodies that recognize and bind to the cell surface of the pathogen, thus marking it as an intruder and triggering an immune response. For ...

Tsetse fly. It transmits parasites that cause sleeping sickness in humans and Nagana disease in animals. [iStockphoto] Tsetse flies - which transmit tiny parasites that cause sleeping sickness in ...

This is a tsetse fly target in Kenya. The sheets of dark cloth are coated with the scent of livestock to attract the tsetse and insecticide to kill it. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections caused by microscopic parasites borne by insects such as the tsetse fly.

Nagana is caused by protozoa, and in Africa is mainly spread by tsetse flies but can also be spread to a lesser extent by other biting flies and even surgical instruments. The presence of tsetse ...

GC data was used to construct phenetic comparisons of 26 species and subspecies of tsetse flies using dried museum and fresh specimens. /// Cuando se usó la cromatografía de gas (CG), los componentes ...

analysis of various transgenic fruit fly lines. In addition, the Tsetse Research Group is involved in an evaluation of an X ray irradiator (RS2400) as an alternative to gamma radiation for the ...

A research team has applied leading-edge atomic imaging and AI-driven modeling to create the most detailed 3D map yet of the ...