The notorious disease known as sleeping sickness can lurk inside a host for months or even years before serious symptoms ...

Mammalian moms aren’t the only ones to deliver babies and feed them milk. Tsetse flies, the insects best known for transmitting sleeping sickness, do it too. A researcher at the University of ...

The fertility of both female and male tsetse flies is affected by a single burst of hot weather, researchers at the University of Bristol and Stellenbosch University in South Africa have found. The ...

The tsetse fly might look like an ordinary insect at first glance, but it’s responsible for spreading one of Africa’s most notorious diseases: sleeping sickness. Found across parts of sub-Saharan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tsetse flies are bloodthirsty. Natives of sub-Saharan Africa, tsetse flies can transmit the microbe Trypanosoma when they take a ...

Scientists have identified a volatile pheromone emitted by the tsetse fly, a blood-sucking insect that spreads diseases in both humans and animals across much of sub-Saharan Africa. The discovery ...

A completely novel way to develop 'surpamolecules' for drug discovery could have application in immunotherapy as well as this breakthrough design for an anticoagulant with on-demand reversibility.

A nuclear technique has successfully reduced the tsetse fly population in Senegal without harming other insects, an eight-year study has found. The study was supported by the International Atomic ...

Elisha Bayode Are receives funding from SACEMA, which receives core funding from the Department of Science & Technology, Government of South Africa. John Hargrove receives funding from SACEMA, which ...

Roger Santer has received funding from the Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarships program, and from the Centre for International Development Research at Aberystwyth (CIDRA). Flies which feast on blood ...