Blind Mosquitos

Blind Mosquitos

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Ida and the Levees, Superweeds, Blue Collar Cash

Episode: Ida and the Levees, Superweeds, Blue Collar Cash

  • Sep 1, 2021 8:00 pm
  • 14:17 mins

By utilizing a gene-editing tool, scientists have rendered humans virtually invisible in the eyes of some disease-carrying mosquitoes. If a mosquito can’t even see you, how are they going to bite you? We get details from UC-Santa Barbara neurobiologist biologist Craig Montell. (Segment produced by Cole Cummings)