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18 February 2010

Written By: grantb on February 18, 2010 No Comment

So Science Daily says – and they don’t seem to be making this up – that scientists are stopping malaria by transplanting mosquitoes’ noses into frog eggs and fruit flies:

The mosquito’s “nose” is centered in its antennae, which are filled with nerve cells covered with special “odorant receptors” that react to different chemical compounds. The insect ORs are comparable [...]

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