Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Employees work in a laboratory of the British biotechnology company Oxitec, in Campinas, Brazil, on October 1. The British ...

Google-backed Verily wants to release up to 64 million mosquitoes across California and Florida. Here's how the Wolbachia strategy works, why scientists support it, and why critics remain concerned.

Inside a small building in eastern Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Cátia Cabral holds up a jar filled with what looks like fine black pepper. But this ain't pepper. Each granule is actually a tiny mosquito ...