Blood sucker (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Blood sucker

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Researchers have captured unprecedented images of the mechanisms that allow mosquitoes, the world’s deadliest animal, to target our blood.

Credit

Erik Jepsen, UC San Diego

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Must be used in conjunction with PNAS paper on mosquito carbon dioxide neuron sensing.

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