#Q.P.!# Quick update on my knowedge.

Did you know that there is a gene in mosquitoes that make them bite us more then anything else?
I do!
The gene has three reasons:

• We (usually) live near bodies of water 

• We exhale carbon dioxide.

• We have body heat.

And we have different blood than others so we don't feel it.
But...


...we have found a way to mix up the gene!
As the week says:

Tweaking mosquitoes’ taste
Scientists have figured out a way to suppress the preference many mosquito species have for biting humans above all other animals. The blood-sucking insects probably evolved that taste because people tend to live in groups and near water, where mosquitoes lay their eggs. “They love our beautiful body odor, they love the carbon dioxide we exhale, and they love our body heat,” Rockefeller University neurobiologist Leslie Vosshall tells Nature.com. Vosshall and her colleagues have now genetically engineered one human-loving mosquito species so that it lacks an odor receptor, making the insects unable to tell the difference between people and other animals. “By disrupting the gene, we can fundamentally confuse the mosquito from its task of seeking humans,’’ Vosshall says. The research could lead to new and better repellents.

 And we will soon have it, I bet!