Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have discovered that volatile repellents might be used to control insects, particularly mosquitoes, on surfaces.
Mosquitoes spread several diseases, such as malaria and dengue. In 2020 about 241 million cases of malaria occurred worldwide, with a few more million cases occurring in 2021.
Goldman and colleagues marked A. aegypti neurons with fluorescent labels to uncover details about how the mosquito brain deciphers human smells. To their surprise, the team found that individual