Soon we will know the answer to a question that has long tormented many: why some people during the rest on the nature constantly wave off mosquitoes, while others do not cause any annoying mosquitoes any interest.
This month, British scientists began to conduct research to find out whether heredity is a key factor in attracting mosquitoes or whether it is due to other features of the body. About this world told the publication Scientific American.
Scientists have gathered to find out in a very interesting way: they will take dirty socks from 200 pairs of twins born in Britain and the Gambia, and place them in a wind tunnel with mosquitoes to track the movement of insects.
The results of this study will be applied to the development of effective remedies against mosquitoes and other blood-sucking insects. With the help of the experiment, researchers are going to find out whether a change in body odor can make a person more or less attractive to mosquitoes.
This study is preceded by another experiment by the same scientists: in 2015 they took two identical and two nonidentical twins and watched how attractive they were to mosquitoes. Identical twins possessed the same level of "attractiveness" for mosquitoes, which prompted scientists to think that it is due to genetic characteristics.
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