A mosquito’s proboscis — the elongated part of its mouth it uses to bite humans — has two tubes. One tube is used for sucking blood from humans. The other injects saliva into the bite.

An international research team led by Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) and the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture has i dentified the gene responsible for a ...

In a study that was almost two decades in the making, researchers were able to identify exactly what traits monkeys were most ...