BUG AGE DETECTOR
March 1st, 2005
BY MONICA DOBIEAMERICAN scientists have discovered technology that can detect the sex of insects, helping them to control disease-carrying bugs such as mosquitoes and tsetse flies. Using an agricultural tool normally used to analyse grain kernels, researchers from the federal government's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) discovered they could determine the sex of insects using near-infrared (NIR) monitors, which beam light at an organism, which reflects it back with its own its own unique signature.Researchers were able to differentiate between males and ...
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