By copying the texture of insect wings or using new types of ... or coating them with substances that kill bacteria and viruses more quickly, some scientists hope it may be possible to defeat ...

They have identified a virus in tobacco cutworms that kills males ... known that microbes can live in insects’ eggs. One of the scientists, Daisuke Kageyama, PhD, explained that the Wolbachia bacteria ...

No one likes the idea of being bitten by a mosquito, especially if that pesky pest also is carrying around viruses ... insects by releasing assassin versions of mosquitoes to kill them off?

By Elizabeth Anne Brown Scientists in Japan have identified a virus that selectively kills ... killer” on their hands. For decades, scientists have known that microbial hitchhikers, usually ...

Deep in the Merri Creek, which twists 70 kilometres through Melbourne’s northern suburbs, lurks a deadly virus. But this virus – a bacteriophage, which preys on bacteria and replicates within ...