Almost everyone has gotten up close and personal with a pestering - TopicsExpress



          

Almost everyone has gotten up close and personal with a pestering mosquito at least once in his life. But few of us have ever come this close. In a study published in online journal PLOS ONE, French researchers used a microscope to examine how mosquitoes feed on blood from inside the bitten body. Videos of a feeding mosquito show the insect using its long snout to search for blood vessels within an anesthetized mouse. The team, led by Valerie Choumet of the Institut Pasteur in Paris, conducted the research to visualize how malaria-infected mosquitoes pass on pathogens. However, the research also presents a close-up
Posted on: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 18:50:42 +0000

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