Humans have an exceptional ability to deal with viruses. In most cases, your immune system is able to fight an infection. On ...

Research on mosquito salivary proteins has gained significant attention due to their crucial role in blood feeding and the transmission of various pathogens, including viruses. Mosquito saliva ...

“The saliva of mosquitoes is like a pharmacy. It's a cocktail of drugs and protein that will regulate several biological processes,” said Joel Vega-Rodriguez, a parasitologist and vector entomologist ...

In a new study, researchers revealed that a mosquito salivary protein binds to an immune molecule in humans, facilitating ...

Biological scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope ...

Biological scientists have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope protein to capture human plasmin from a blood meal to enhance the permeability of the mosquito midgut for infection.

In 2010, Japanese scientists genetically modified mosquitoes to carry a vaccine against leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease typically spread by sandflies, in their salivary glands. During a ...

It’s widely known that malaria is spread by mosquitoes. But how often do you get to see the mechanics of that process up close? Here, you can see red malaria parasites in a single drop of mosquito ...