Mosquito in sentence

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So, the noises made by the seagull and mosquito vibrate different locations on the basilar membrane, like playing different keys on a piano.

So malaria should be a relatively simple disease to solve, and yet to this day, hundreds of thousands of people are going to die from the bite of a mosquito.

I grew up as the daughter of Indian immigrants visiting my cousins in India every summer, and because I had no immunity to the local malarias, I was made to sleep under this hot, sweaty mosquito net every night while my cousins, they were allowed to sleep out on the terrace and have this nice, cool night breeze wafting over them.

It lives half its life inside the cold-blooded mosquito and half its life inside the warm-blooded human.

So the parasite is a very big scientific challenge to tackle, but so is the mosquito that carries the parasite.

You've created the perfect malarial mosquito habitat that's right outside your door.

Another example, one of my favorite insects, I love to hate this one, is a mosquito, and you're seeing the antenna of a culex pipiens.

You might vote for the horsefly or perhaps the wasp, but for many people, the worst offender is by far the mosquito.

The buzzing, the biting, the itching, the mosquito is one of the most commonly detested pests in the world.

The scourge that is the mosquito isn't new.

After landing, a mosquito will slather some saliva onto the victim's skin, which works like an antiseptic, numbing the spot so we don't notice their attack.

Getting rid of the mosquito removes a food source for lots of organisms, like frogs and fish and birds.

When a mosquito bites you, it releases a compound into your body called an anticoagulant that prevents your blood from clotting.

A mosquito lands on your arm, injects its chemicals into your skin, and begins to feed.

So the next time you catch a cold or scratch a mosquito bite, think of the immune system.

For one thing, it turned out to be really hard to make a malaria-resistant mosquito.

James managed it, finally, just a few years ago, by adding some genes that make it impossible for the malaria parasite to survive inside the mosquito.

Now that you've got a malaria-resistant mosquito, how do you get it to replace all the malaria-carrying mosquitos?

So if our original mosquito was aa and our new mosquito is aB, where B is the anti-malarial gene, the babies should come out in four permutations: aa, aB, aa, Ba.

The first was that it was hard to engineer a mosquito to be malaria-resistant.

Assuming that your trait does not have a big evolutionary handicap, like a mosquito that can't fly, the CRISPR-based gene drive will spread the change relentlessly until it is in every single individual in the population.

And if you squint, you can maybe see the moon through a thick layer of cigarette smoke and airplane exhaust that covers the whole city, like a mosquito net that won't let the angels in.

Now, malaria's transmitted by a mosquito, and normally if you're infected with malaria, and you're feeling sick, it makes it even easier for the mosquito to bite you.

The only pathogens that get transmitted are the ones that are infecting people that feel healthy enough to walk outside and get mosquito bites.

And the asterisks represent the time at which the mosquito proofing was complete.

This is important, because it tells us that if you have moderate biting densities, you can eradicate malaria by mosquito proofing houses.

Last summer, mosquito control officials in Dorchester County, South Carolina, authorized spraying of Naled, an insecticide, early one morning, as recommended by the manufacturer.

So Jack Block and I, when we were writing an editorial about the mosquito problem today, retold that story.

It's an urban mosquito, and it's the female that does the dirty work.

A little British company called Oxitec genetically modified that mosquito so that when it mates with a wild female, its eggs don't develop to adulthood.

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