Watch a mosquito bite in real time under the microscope.

Lacking the charm of Mona Lisa's smile and bringing to mind a vision of Salvador Dalí's mustache on an extremely bad trip, this gruesome photo that's been gaining steam on the internet teaches a ...

An Iowa State University scientist identifies mosquito species with the help of a microscope. A recent study from ISU entomologists describes the immune responses mosquitoes have to the parasite that ...

Under a microscope, the mosquito’s proboscis looks like a tiny, precision tool. Thin, flexible, and sharp, it slips through skin almost unnoticed to draw blood. To most people, it’s a nuisance. To ...

Watch these videos if you want to get itchy and nauseated: a mosquito repeatedly introducing its sucking needle between your skin and flesh cells until it finds a ...

Big and small: RUSH image of the brain of a live mouse. The coloured lines show the motions of labelled immune cells. The image is about 1 cm across. (Courtesy: Jingtao Fan et al/Nature Photonics) A ...