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To study the protein’s effect on ingested blood, the researchers fed mosquitoes on mice before and after the animals were treated with a recombinant apyrase and then studied the contents of their guts ...

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Female mosquitoes spread those diseases among animals and humans when biting them, extracting blood contaminated with a disease germ that then can be transmitted to others in subsequent bites.