UC Riverside Entomologists (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

University of California - Riverside

UC Riverside Entomologists (2 of 2)

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Warren MacDonald (left), Bart Bryant and Alexander Raikhel (seated) take a look at an image of a female Aedes aegypti mosquito whose gut has undigested blood. The researchers developed a method that deactivates a key microRNA in the mosquito; this miccroRNA is responsible for blood digestion and egg development.

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