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Virginia Tech researchers receive $2.7 million grant to study mosquito's biological timing
Virginia Tech researchers receive $2.7 million grant to study mosquito's biological timing Mosquitoes may be small, but they are a formidable foe. Not only can they smell over 400 chemicals that we emit and detect the carbon dioxide we breathe out, but they can even adapt their daily behavior in response to our own. With the help of a $2.7 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), researchers at Virginia Tech are now investigating how mosquitoes adjust their olfactory, or smelling, rhythms in response to changes in our own daily activity. Mosquitoes...
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