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In the Texas border city of Edinburg, scientists are getting ready to release millions of invasive, flesh-eating flies into the wild. The post Why Texas scientists are breeding flesh-eating maggots ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how the Arctic is at the risk of an invasion of non-native ...

Brevard County is releasing X-ray sterilized male mosquitoes to combat the spread of dengue fever. This method, known as the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), renders male mosquitoes infertile to ...

An infographic showing the average declines in abundance of key terrestrial insect groups due to invasive alien species. The extent of declines varies across species and regions. Insects are often ...

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A British company breeding mosquitoes whose offspring cannot spread malaria is set to start releasing the insects into Djibouti city by the end of the year. Genetically-engineered male mosquitoes ...

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Proposed model of SA/ABA antagonism. The bar chart depicts the changes in transcript abundance of the PR1 and WRKY18 genes in tea plants treated with ABA and asOND. Tea (Camellia sinensis) is one of ...

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