So there's lots of options, and the first step is the science that gives us the answer.
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Let's - maybe a skin cream that will change the chemistry of your skin, maybe beneficial bacteria that interact with our skin differently to make us less smelly. So carboxylic acid levels really mean that you're going to be a magnet, so let's reduce them.
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So I think that that's why the basic science is important, is that until you figure out what it is, you can't figure out how to do the next step.
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Once you know this part of the puzzle, if I might put it this way, maybe people can develop some kind of treatment, something as simple as a repellant or maybe just - I don't know - series of inoculations that people might take. I think for the people who are magnets, at least you know that you have more carboxylic acids, and that's the reason why. VOSSHALL: I don't know if that's comforting news. I mean, if you're just born that way, you're born that way. SIMON: The way you describe it, there is no way out. We did over 2,500 contests in this big tournament to identify the most attractive person of them all. We cut those smelly nylons into little pieces and used them as bait and then asked hungry female mosquitoes to choose between nylon No.
We had people wear nylon stockings on their arms. And the way we did this is we - it involved pantyhose. VOSSHALL: So the whole study was done with Aedes aegypti, which is a dangerous mosquito that spreads dengue, yellow fever, Zika, chikungunya. Help us understand how you conducted the study. So that's why the magnets that we found at the beginning of the study, three years later, were still the peak-performing mosquito magnets. The mosquitoes are really cuing into the natural fatty acids on the skin, and you can't strip them off, and you can't cover them up with perfume or anything. VOSSHALL: None of this makes any difference. SIMON: So do we make ourselves a magnet when we slather sun cream on or something? Carboxylic acids are that natural moisturizer that we all have that keeps our skin barrier healthy. VOSSHALL: The short answer is high levels of carboxylic acid on your skin. We worked on this because everybody wants to know, and for 15 years, every day, someone asks me, why am I always attacked at every picnic, and why are my children ignored? Why's my husband ignored? And so we decided to really attack it and do the science. VOSSHALL: You know, I'm somewhere in the middle. SIMON: Well, are you one? I mean, what gave you a personal interest in this? Can't wait to talk about mosquito magnets. Vosshall, thanks so much for being with us. She's the head of the laboratory of neurogenetics and behavior there. Why is that? Leslie Vosshall and her team of researchers at the Rockefeller University decided to find out. Some mosquitoes seem especially drawn to certain people.
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