But Wolbachia could move into other species, too: The WolBloc team has had some early success in preventing malaria transmission by mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia.

Wolbachia in the lab Russell focuses on Wolbachia because it and its fruit fly hosts are relatively easy to keep alive and reproduce in the lab. Oftentimes when scientists study bacteria, their ...

The Wolbachia bacterium is ubiquitous in nature: It can be found in as many as 60 percent of insect species, from butterflies and wasps, to bees, dragonflies, and some species of mosquito.

Project Wolbachia now covers about 352,000 households, which is about 25 per cent of all households in Singapore, said Dr Ng. This is more than double the 160,000 households covered in the middle ...

An adult Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti mosquito is seen under a microscope at the insectarium of Universitas Gajah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Dec. 8, 2023. Dasril Roszandi—Anadolu/Getty ...

Conservationists working to save Hawaii’s endangered, native birds are now using drones to deliver lab-reared, male ...

The health ministry may have denied doing so in Negeri Sembilan recently, but the release of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes has been carried out previously and remains a useful measure to combat ...

Areas with Wolbachia mosquitoes also experienced a 56% drop in chikungunya and a 37% reduction in Zika. How is Niterói faring during the current surge? It’s early days.

In a pilot program in Indonesia, releasing Wolbachia mosquitoes cut dengue fever infections by 77 percent. People may be getting just as many itchy mosquito bites as they were before, but fewer of ...

These wasps may be inhabited by a bacteria, Wolbachia, which turns nearly all wasps in a population female. It turns out they force male eggs to become female thanks to sex — determining genes ...

Five years ago, Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes were introduced across most of the Brazilian city of Niteroi. When Brazil endured its worst-ever dengue outbreak this year, there was only a small ...