New way to smell a rat means end for rodents

Monday, April 11, 2016 - 18:40 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have developed a new way to exterminate rats by identifying and synthetically replicating the male brown rat's sex pheromone. The chemical is a powerful attractant for luring female brown rats into traps.

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