Always hungry for blood, the tsetse fly packs a painful bite. Worse yet, its attack can leave a hapless victim infected with a parasitic disease that kills thousands of people — and millions of ...

A decade-long effort by members of the International Glossina Genome Initiative (IGGI) has produced the first complete genome sequence of the tsetse fly, Glossina morsitans. The blood-sucking insect ...

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Few animals are more problematic than the tiny African insect known to English speakers as the tsetse fly. This is the carrier of "sleeping sickness," an often deadly neurological illness in humans, ...

Sleeping sickness wastes away people and livestock in Ethiopia. Drones are being used to fight the fly that spreads it. Drones Against Tsetse wants to bring down the wrath of a weaponized drone on the ...

Few animals are more problematic than the tiny African insect known to English speakers as the tsetse fly. This is the carrier of "sleeping sickness," an often deadly neurological illness in humans, ...

Scientists from different parts of the world figured out the genetic code of the bloodsucking tsetse fly which spreads fatal African sleeping sickness, hoping to learn more about its biological ...

After 10 years of effort, a team led by scientists at Yale has finally decoded the genes of the tsetse fly, a bloodsucking scourge of Africa. The fly transmits sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease ...

Mining the genome of the disease-transmitting tsetse fly, researchers have revealed the genetic adaptions that allow it to have such unique biology and transmit disease to both humans and animals. The ...

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Kenya Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Council board members observing a tsetse fly trap at Olkinyei Wildlife Conservancy near Masai Mara Game Reserve. [Robert Kiplagat/Standard] The Government ...