We are a virologist and an entomologist who study insect-borne and viral diseases and how human and insect immune systems ...

The researchers cultured a fungus that, in the wild, kills insects in about a week ... a drone “triggers an up-regulation of the immune system,” the study says. “The impact of mating ...

Insect immunity may display hitherto unsuspected molecular complexity. Researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston investigated whether Dscam – a gene made famous by its prolific alternative ...

In an article published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, scientists report that these insects are able ... behaviors would be like the immune system. In the same way that our ...

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection transmitted by tick bites. It often causes rash, fever, headaches, fatigue, and other ...

Cells known as haemocytes play an important role in the caterpillar immune system. Like our white blood cells, these help development and growth. Some haemocytes can envelop and destroy tiny microbial ...

This is an inefficient- but effective means of transmission. We propose that this system has developed because the parasite is susceptible to the insect immune peptides expressed in the body cavity ...

“They’re under the skin and part of our immune system,” Dr Jakob says ... Can spit alleviate the symptoms of insect bites and stings? Yes, but not because of any special substances it ...