Being bit by a mosquito carrying dengue or Zika virus can make you sick. The infection can also make you even more attractive for other mosquitoes, new research finds. It’s an itchy concern for anyone ...

Certain fears can be inherited through the generations, a provocative study of mice reports 1. The authors suggest that a similar phenomenon could influence anxiety and addiction in humans. But some ...

Some tropical viruses can change your scent to attract mosquitoes. This is how they find new hosts. Viruses that cause tropical diseases like dengue and Zika can hijack their host’s scent to better ...

Essential chemical intermediates in dye manufacture are nitroanilines. In this experiment series, p-nitroaniline is synthesized by a multi-step sequence as shown in Figure 1. This compound is used to ...

Some mosquito-borne viruses turn mice into alluring mosquito bait. Mice infected with dengue or Zika viruses — and people infected with dengue — emit a flowery, orange-smelling chemical that tempts ...

Epigenetics has become something of a buzzword these days. Researchers have long studied how changes in an organism's DNA sequence affect how genes behave, but epigenetics looks at how environmental ...

Certain fears can be inherited through the generations, a provocative study of mice reports. The authors suggest that a similar phenomenon could influence anxiety and addiction in humans. But some ...

If a particular smell makes you uneasy but you don’t know why, perhaps you should ask your grandparents. Mice whose father or grandfather learned to associate the smell of cherry blossom with an ...

Penghua Wang receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, United States organization. He is a regular member of American Association of ...

Chinese scientists have discovered that acetophenone, an organic compound commonly found in perfumes, fruits and vegetables, can make humans and mice "smell more enticing" to mosquitoes, according to ...