Raymond Cloyd of Kansas State University's Department of Entomology shares four primary reasons insecticide applications can become less effective and how to mitigate resistance in all greenhouse ...

Your grocery store produce looks fresh and healthy, but it often hides a problem. Those gleaming bell peppers and ruby-red ...

The analysis combined USDA residue data with CDC health surveys, tracking pesticide markers in nearly 2,000 participants.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. _Anopheles darlingi_, a key carrier of malaria, is rapidly evolving resistance to insecticides. Romuald Carinci and Pascal Gaborit ...

Anopheles darlingi, a key carrier of malaria, is rapidly evolving resistance to insecticides. Romuald Carinci and Pascal Gaborit/Duchemin lab/Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, CC BY-SA The fight against ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The fight against infectious disease is a race against evolution. Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. Viruses adapt to spread more quickly. Diseases transmitted by insects ...

Scientists still don’t fully understand the health risks of the chemicals. Here’s how they recommend protecting yourself. By Allyson Chiu When Melissa Furlong, an environmental health researcher at ...

Scientists at Rothamsted Research and ApresLabs Ltd have demonstrated that SYN-A, a naturally derived synergist extracted from olive oil, can restore the effectiveness of pyrethroid insecticides ...

One of the central pillars of malaria control efforts in Africa is the use of bed nets that contain an insecticide; pyrethroids have become the backbone of mosquito net programs worldwide. However, ...

A new study, jointly led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases (CRID) in Cameroon, has detected a DNA marker in a gene encoding for a key enzyme, ...