Bad news for mosquitoes: Yale study may lead to better traps, repellents

Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 07:21 in Biology & Nature

Yale University researchers have found more than two dozen scent receptors in malaria-transmitting mosquitoes that detect compounds in human sweat, a finding that may help scientists to develop new ways to combat a disease that kills 1 million people annually...

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