Rockefeller University Mosquito Study

08/10/2013

Our mosquito study featured in the Daily Beast this week!

Dr. Leslie Vosshall studies the dining preferences of mosquitoes, with the goal of not just safer picnics but also more intel on West Nile, malaria, and dengue fever, writes Josh Dzieza.

02/05/2013

Beautiful new video from the Vosshall Lab of a female mosquito blood-feeding

A female Aedes aegypti (the dengue and yellow fever mosquito) takes a bloodmeal from an artificial membrane feeder. The blood is warmed to 37˚C and covered b...

08/03/2012

Our mosquito study on CBS Sunday Morning (July 1, 2012)

Experts say fighting the spread of insect-borne diseases like West Nile virus is like an arms race - one mosquitoes are winning

08/03/2012

gory mosquito pamphlet

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08/24/2011

Our mosquito study featured in The New Yorker

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06/03/2011

FLOWER POWER: Lindy McBride (photo) and Laura Seeholzer (photographer) testing if our male mosquitoes respond to the scent of fresh flowers!

04/23/2011

A really nice drawing of a mosquito!

Briony Morrow-Cribbs’s drawings from the new book by Amy Stewart.

04/19/2011

From the Wellcome Collection in London, U.K.: "The malaria mosquito forming the eye-sockets of a skull, representing death from malaria. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1941."

04/19/2011

Just another day at the lab...Leslie Vosshall's arm after feeding some hungry girl mosquitoes

04/19/2011

Everything you ever wanted to know about injecting DNA into mosquito eggs!

Conor McMeniman of The Rockefeller University and Ben Glass of Genetic Services Inc. demonstrate our protocol for mosquito embryo microinjection. This technique is useful for generating transgenic mosquitoes or generating mutant mosquito strains with Zinc Finger Nucleases. Contact us at mosquito@

04/17/2011

The debate over mosquito eradication. Your thoughts?

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04/16/2011

Courtesy of Matthew Cobb (University of Manchester): "an engraving of a mosquito byJan Swammerdam (1637-1680) (he died of malaria...). It was originally published in 1669, and then redrawn, with scales on the wings, in the 1670s.It was published in this form in 1737 in his posthumous Bijbel der Nature."