{"id":1748,"date":"2023-03-14T18:08:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T18:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2023-03-14T18:08:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T18:08:31","slug":"scientists-disable-protective-gene-in-mosquitoes-making-them-susceptible-to-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=1748","title":{"rendered":"Scientists disable protective gene in mosquitoes, making them susceptible to disease"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-30.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-1749\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-30.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-30.png 800w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-30-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-30-770x510.png 770w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-30-293x194.png 293w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-30-120x80.png 120w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-30-240x160.png 240w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-30-390x258.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kevin Myles, Ph.D., Department of Entomology professor, with containers of mosquitoes used in his research. Myles latest study revealed immune pathways that could be disabled making the mosquitoes more susceptible to the diseases they carry and pass to humans. Credit: Michael Miller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Immune pathways that protect mosquitoes from human pathogens, including West Nile, Zika and dengue viruses were disabled by Texas A&amp;M AgriLife Research scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The research study, &#8220;RNA interference is essential to modulating the pathogenesis of mosquito-borne viruses in the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti,&#8221; published in the\u00a0<em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>, showed that the mosquito vector species Aedes aegypti becomes acutely susceptible to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/disease\/\">disease<\/a>\u00a0when the protective immune pathway is disabled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-03-scientists-disable-gene-mosquitoes-susceptible.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-03-scientists-disable-gene-mosquitoes-susceptible.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immune pathways that protect mosquitoes from human pathogens, including West Nile, Zika and dengue viruses were disabled by Texas A&amp;M AgriLife Research scientists. The research study, &#8220;RNA interference is essential to modulating the pathogenesis of mosquito-borne viruses in the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti,&#8221; published in the\u00a0Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that the mosquito vector species Aedes aegypti becomes acutely susceptible to\u00a0disease\u00a0when the protective immune pathway is disabled. Read more here: https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-03-scientists-disable-gene-mosquitoes-susceptible.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}