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Princeton: How Mosquito Brains Encode Human Odor So They Can Seek Us Out
May 05, 2022
PRINCETON, New Jersey, May 5 (TNSRes) -- Princeton University issued the following news:

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Mosquitos. Bane of backyard picnics -- and deadly in Zika- and dengue-prone regions regions.

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Most of the world's mosquitos are opportunistic, willing to drink blood from any nearby source. But in some regions, the mosquitoes that carry Zika, dengue and yellow fever -- Aedes aegypti -- have evolved to bite humans almost exclusively. But to s . . .

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