{"id":140702,"date":"2022-06-16T21:06:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T02:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/genetic-discovery-could-spell-mosquitoes-death-knell"},"modified":"2022-06-16T21:06:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T02:06:26","slug":"genetic-discovery-could-spell-mosquitoes-death-knell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/genetic-discovery-could-spell-mosquitoes-death-knell","title":{"rendered":"Genetic discovery could spell mosquitoes\u2019 death knell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genetic-discovery-could-spell-mosquitoes-death-knell.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A UC Riverside genetic discovery could turn disease-carrying mosquitoes into insect Peter Pans, preventing them from ever maturing or multiplying.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, UCR entomologist Naoki Yamanaka found, contrary to accepted scientific wisdom, that an important steroid hormone requires <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/transporter+proteins\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">transporter proteins<\/a> to enter or exit fruit fly cells. The hormone, ecdysone, is called the \u201cmolting hormone.\u201d Without it, flies will never mature, or reproduce.<\/p>\n<p>Before his discovery, textbooks taught that ecdysone travels freely across cell membranes, slipping past them with ease. \u201cWe now know that\u2019s not true,\u201d Yamanaka said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UC Riverside genetic discovery could turn disease-carrying mosquitoes into insect Peter Pans, preventing them from ever maturing or multiplying. In 2018, UCR entomologist Naoki Yamanaka found, contrary to accepted scientific wisdom, that an important steroid hormone requires transporter proteins to enter or exit fruit fly cells. The hormone, ecdysone, is called the \u201cmolting hormone.\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}