Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Employees work in a laboratory of the British biotechnology company Oxitec, in Campinas, Brazil, on October 1. The British ...

Oct. 10 (UPI) --The world's largest factory that produces mosquitoes that can prevent dengue, Zika and chikungunya viruses from reproducing has opened in Curitiba, Brazil, aiming to boost protection ...

For more than two decades, Luciano Moreira has played a defining role in the development and large-scale deployment of the ...

Science and nature have always been at odds with each other. But sometimes, in order to win this battle, scientists take steps that sound almost like a scene from a fantasy story. While the whole ...

Inside a small building in eastern Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Cátia Cabral holds up a jar filled with what looks like fine black pepper. But this ain't pepper. Each granule is actually a tiny mosquito ...