{"id":719455,"date":"2022-03-16T15:06:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T19:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=719455"},"modified":"2022-03-16T15:06:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T19:06:05","slug":"surprise-findings-suggest-mosquito-odor-sensors-are-sensitive-to-molecular-regulation-to-avoid-insect-repellants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=719455","title":{"rendered":"Surprise findings suggest mosquito odor sensors are sensitive to molecular regulation to avoid insect repellants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what they call surprise findings, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists report that unlike those in fruit flies, mosquitoes&#8217; odor sensing nerve cells shut down when those cells are forced to produce odor-related proteins, or receptors, on the surface of the cell. This &#8220;expression&#8221; process apparently makes the bugs able to ignore common insect repellants.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-03-mosquito-odor-sensors-sensitive-molecular.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Surprise findings suggest mosquito odor sensors are sensitive to molecular regulation to avoid insect repellants<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what they call surprise findings, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists report that unlike those in fruit flies, mosquitoes&#8217; odor sensing nerve cells shut down when those cells are forced to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}