Mosquito-borne diseases, such as dengue and malaria, pose significant global health
burdens. Unfortunately, current control methods based on insecticides and environmental …

Background Mosquito-borne viruses—such as Zika, chikungunya, dengue fever, and yellow
fever, among others—are of global importance. Although vaccine development for …

The range of the mosquito Aedes aegypti continues to expand, putting more than two billion
people at risk of arboviral infection. The sterile insect technique (SIT) has been used to …

Historically, biological control utilizes predatory species and pathogenic microorganisms to
reduce the population of mosquitoes as disease vectors. This is particularly important for the …

Simple Summary The sterile insect technique (SIT) is a species-specific and environment-
friendly method of insect control that relies on the release of large numbers of sterile insects …

Mosquito-transmitted diseases, including malaria and dengue, are a major threat to human
health around the globe, affecting millions each year. A diverse array of next-generation …

Engineered gene drives, which bias their own inheritance to increase in frequency in target
populations, are being developed to control mosquito malaria vectors. Such mosquitoes can …

Alternative, biologically-based approaches for pest management are sorely needed and one
approarch is to use genetically engineered insects. Herein we describe a series of …

The sterile insect technique is an area‐wide pest control method that reduces agricultural
pest populations by releasing mass‐reared sterile insects, which then compete for mates …

Invasive insect species can act as a plague across the globe, capable of vast expansion and
rapid, proliferate reproduction. The spread of pathogens of serious diseases such as malaria …