Science - November 18, 2010

Feast

Delicious, a petri dish full of blood, especially with a garnish of reeking bacteria. A feast fit for a mosquito.

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Niels Verhulst prepared it as part of his PhD research on the interaction between malaria mosquitoes, our sweat and the skin bacteria that produce the odours so attractive to the mozzie.

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