The Comparative Power of Human Scent to Repellent Mosquitoes

The system has the potential to reveal new components of human scent that might be produced by the human body naturally or alternatively acquired in our diet, says Connor McMinnaman. Perhaps we could find ways to add them to existing repellent formulations that we currently apply to our skin and buy from the shops. And presumably it's an opportunity to test novel ways to repel mosquitoes as well. So I think this system also provides a really great way to test repellent and benchmark their activity and efficacy in an exposure-free and risk-free way for humans.