The active ingredient in many insect repellents, deet, has been found to be toxic to the central nervous system. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology say that more investigations ...

(Beyond Pesticides, August 12, 2009) A new study examining the effects of the mosquito repellent DEET on insects, mice and human proteins reports that the chemical interferes with a prominent central ...

A summer necessity, bug spray keeps insects away – but is it also bad for our health? Researchers are debating whether the anti-pest sprays with which we douse ourselves are putting our health in ...

UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science researchers measured concentrations of popular herbicides and the insect repellent DEET in urine samples of ...

The research results achieved by neurobiologists from Leslie Vosshall’s group at Rockefeller University, USA, helped now settle a scientific dispute over DEET's mode of action that has been ongoing ...

Over the years, one thing has become clear from Consumer Reports’ testing of insect repellents: When in doubt, go with deet. Repellents that use deet as an active ingredient make up the majority of ...

It might seem obvious that the primary function of insect repellents like DEET is to, well, repel. But if you bring a pipette tip full of DEET right up to a mosquito, as Johns Hopkins neuroscientist ...

A bug spray station at the EPCOT center at Walt Disney World in Florida, an effort to help combat mosquitoes and to prevent the Zika virus from spreading, on Aug. 31, 2016. (Theme park tourist/ ...

For decades DEET has been successfully used to repel biting insects. Scientists from Rockefeller University, New York, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, ...