Immune against bites from bedbugs, Canadian biologist Regine Gries lets bite 180,000 times by bed bugs love of science.
Bedbugs are attracted to human bedding . Apart from the inconvenience it causes, the big question is to understand how they are to colonize us despite an almost complete eradication and how to fight against proliferation.
It is to these questions that a team of Simon Fraser Institute (Canada) tried to answer. To do this, it had serious assets: Regine Gries. This Canadian biologist is indeed immunized against the bite of these particularly stinging creatures that feed on human blood feeling no effect. Thus it has agreed to lend her skin science to feed bugs to better understand them.
This “was to be bitten several times per month by each of its small protected . In total, five years of work, Regine Gries has undergone more than 180,000 bites bedbugs! “Says the blog Treader Sciences. It is stated that “this lady is immunized against these bites. They do not cause these large home features red buttons with uncontrollable itching that accompany them. “
With his sacrifice, the team was able to identify the bugs emit pheromones to attract their peers . This discovery will allow us to design traps. But before they can be marketed, it will still do other tests: “There is in fact a number of tests to be performed for the development of the traps before marketing. By then, the researcher must continue to feed his colony … “
The main applicant stated about it.” I’m not particularly happy, but knowing how this technology will accommodate quantity people, it is worth it. “
While this study demonstrates the whole spirit of sacrifice Regine Gries, one can point out that Barry Marshall had done the same by shotant with Helicobacter bacteria pylori and by healing with antibiotics, which earned him the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2005. Will it be the same with the Canadian scientist?
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