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So that leaves the mosquitoes, and here's how we control them now: spraying insecticides.
The extra copies, however, go and gum up the mosquitoes' genes, killing the organism.
They take beakers full of male mosquitoes, load them into milk cartons, and drive around the city, releasing them guided by GPS.
When the local residents heard that there would be genetically modified mosquitoes tested in their community some of them began to organize protests.
The world map for where mosquitoes are is missing.
There are 3,500 species of mosquitoes, and they're all very similar.
This is what mosquitoes flirting with each other looks like.
I caught some mosquitoes outside.
(Mosquitoes buzz) This is all the charming sound that you heard before that you all love.
Using a flip phone, we mapped one of the largest acoustic databases with 25 to 20 species of mosquitoes that carry human pathogens.
And from this and machine learning, anybody who uploads this data, we can identify and tell the probability of what species of mosquitoes you're actually working with.
They kept flying around the room, they kept veering left and right to catch mosquitoes.
CRISPR could create plants that yield larger fruit, mosquitoes that can’t transmit malaria, or even reprogram drug-resistant cancer cells.
One of the debates going on at the National Academies today is you have the power to put a gene drive into mosquitoes so that you will kill all the malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
Spread by a parasite found in local mosquitoes, malaria uses red blood cells as incubators to spread quickly and lethally through the bloodstream.
And each and every one of you will know - C'mon, hands up, who always get bitten by mosquitoes?
People who don't attract mosquitoes smell repellent, and what we know is - (Laughter) I should clarify: repellent to mosquitoes, not to people.
But mosquitoes are able to do that because they have a highly sophisticated sense of smell, and they're able to see through all this sort of odour sludge to find you, that individual, and bite you as a blood meal.
If this was to happen in the malaria system, it might make sense that it would be something to do with odour that they manipulate because odour is the key, odour's the thing that links us between mosquitoes; that's how they find us.
So one of the first things that we wanted to do in our study was to find out whether an infection with malaria actually makes you more attractive to mosquitoes or not.
The odour from the tent was blown into a chamber which contained mosquitoes.
And the mosquitoes would behaviourally respond - they would fly towards or fly away from the odours depending on whether they liked them or not.
We have a number of mosquitoes attracted to the child, and we have two sets of data: before treatment and after treatment.
And what we found was that highly attractive trait that was there disappeared after they had cleared the infection, so it wasn't just that the people were more attractive, it was that the parasite was manipulating its host in some way to make it more attractive to mosquitoes, standing out like a beacon to attract more mosquitoes so that it could continue its life cycle.
And feet's really important to mosquitoes.
Mosquitoes love that smell.
Now, when it comes to mosquitoes and olfaction, their sense of smell, it's very complex.
But mosquitoes are able to do that because they have a highly sophisticated sense of smell, and they're able to see through all the, sort of, odor sludge to find you, that individual, and bite you as a blood meal.
Odor is the thing that links us between mosquitoes.
The odor from the tent was blown into a chamber which contained mosquitoes, and the mosquitoes would behaviorally respond.
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