How mosquitoes use vision to find and bite you

A new study clarifies how female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes use vision to recognize humans for their next meal.

Harrison Tasoff-UC Santa Barbara • futurity
Aug. 2, 2021 ~7 min

2-drug combo shrinks breast cancer tumors

Triple negative breast cancer has a high recurrence rate and poor prognosis and survival outcomes. A 2-drug combo shows promise in reducing tumor growth.

Fabienne Landry-McGill • futurity
June 3, 2021 ~7 min


CRISPR gives mosquitoes contagious infertility

Researchers have used the gene editing tool CRISPR/Cas9 to make male mosquitoes infertile. When females mate with them, they're rendered infertile, too.

Harrison Tasoff-UC Santa Barbara • futurity
May 26, 2021 ~8 min

Modified mosquitoes could stop Zika virus spread

Genetically-modified mosquitoes that are resistant to the Zika virus and can't spread it to people could stop its spread.

Brian Consiglio-Missouri • futurity
Jan. 27, 2021 ~5 min

Killer cotton and planes dropping moths wiped out these pests

The invasive pink bollworm has inflicted tens of millions of dollars in damage annually. Biotech cotton and sterile moths helped eradicate it in the US.

Rose Brandt-Arizona • futurity
Dec. 22, 2020 ~7 min

Gene edit could get oil from plant leaves

New research with CRISPR suggests vegetable oil could come from the leaves of plants like sorghum or soybeans.

Austin Fitzgerald-Missouri • futurity
Dec. 18, 2020 ~4 min

Credit-card-sized ‘microlab’ detects COVID-19 in minutes

Using "lab on a chip" technology, researchers have created a microlab half the size of a credit card that can detect COVID-19 in just 30 minutes.

Andrew Myers-Stanford • futurity
Nov. 10, 2020 ~6 min

‘Assembly line’ tinkering lets yeast cells make drugs

Reprogrammed to behave like tiny factories, yeast cells make drugs.

Tom Abate-Stanford • futurity
Sept. 8, 2020 ~7 min


Old-school efforts thwart ‘billion-dollar beetles’

Some fundamental farming strategies can limit damage from western corn rootworms, research finds.

Rose Brandt-Arizona • futurity
July 23, 2020 ~6 min

Team aims for a simple, at-home COVID-19 test

A new COVID-19 test could be a lot simpler. “The idea is to have a paper-based system where people can just look at it and say, yes, you have it, or not.”

Alisson Clark-Florida • futurity
April 22, 2020 ~4 min

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