{"id":160039,"date":"2023-03-11T13:23:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T19:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/scientists-explore-mosquitoes-radar-that-tells-them-who-to-bite"},"modified":"2023-03-11T13:23:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T19:23:59","slug":"scientists-explore-mosquitoes-radar-that-tells-them-who-to-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/scientists-explore-mosquitoes-radar-that-tells-them-who-to-bite","title":{"rendered":"Scientists explore mosquitoes\u2019 radar that tells them who to bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-explore-mosquitoes-radar-that-tells-them-who-to-bite2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The research could be used to produce repellents for the insects.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has ever been bitten by a mosquito has wondered why are these insects attracted to me? Now, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers may have an answer, according to a press release published last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnderstanding the molecular biology of mosquito odor-sensing is key to developing new ways to avoid bites and the burdensome diseases they cause,\u201d said Christopher Potter, Ph.D.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Panom\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>They claim they have mapped specialized receptors on the insects\u2019 nerve cells that are able to fine-tune their ability to detect particularly \u201cwelcoming\u201d odors in human skin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The research could be used to produce repellents for the insects. Anyone who has ever been bitten by a mosquito has wondered why are these insects attracted to me? Now, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers may have an answer, according to a press release published last month. \u201cUnderstanding the molecular biology of mosquito odor-sensing is key [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160039","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}