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一 |     Mosquitoes use the body odor, heat, and carbon dioxide that humans emit, varying from person to person, to find their next meal. The study, which was published in the scientific journal Cell, reveals that mosquitoes may perceive odors via a variety of distinct pathways, in contrast to animals, which have a single set of neurons that detect each sort of odor.,Female mosquitoes use the variety of odors that people and other animals produce to find the blood that will feed their eggs. The olfactory neurons in the insects' antennae, which are where they take up scents, detect and send scent information to the brain.,Groups of human-odor receptors on the olfactory neurons in the antennae of female mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti) were rendered inactive by the study's lead author Meg Younger and her colleagues at Boston University in Massachusetts using the gene editing tool CRISPR.,"We found that there’s a real difference in the way mosquitoes encode the odors that they encounter compared to what we’ve learned from other animals,” Younger is quoted as saying in the Guardian report on the findings.,According to Younger, the scientists believed that mosquitoes would adhere to the core tenet of olfaction, which states that each neuron expresses only one type of receptor.,“Instead, what we’ve seen is that different receptors can respond to different odors in the same neuron," she added.,This reportedly suggests that mosquitoes can still detect human odors after losing one or more receptors. The researchers asserted that this backup system may have developed as a survival mechanism.,"The mosquito Aedes aegypti is specialized to bite humans, and it is believed that they evolved to do that because humans are always close to fresh water and mosquitoes lay their eggs in fresh water. We are basically the perfect meal, so the drive to find humans is extremely strong," Younger explained,In the end, the researchers argued, knowing how the mosquito brain perceives human odor could be used to influence biting behavior and stop the spread of diseases like malaria, dengue fever, and yellow fever that are transmitted by those insects.,"One major strategy for controlling mosquitoes is to attract them to traps to remove them from the biting population. If we could use this knowledge to understand how human odor is represented in the mosquito antennae and brain, we could develop blends that are more attractive to mosquitoes than we are. We could also develop repellants that target those receptors and neurons that detect human odor," Younger concluded.,Notably, Christopher Potter at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Maryland recently found a similar phenomenon in fruit flies, or Drosophila melanogaster.,“If one of these types of olfactory receptors is mutated or no longer functioning, there’s this backup system," Potter is quoted as saying in the New Scientist report. “It’s changing the dogma of what we thought we knew about the olfactory system.”,Science & TechSmell of Blood: Mosquitoes' Scent-Based Host-Seeking Mechanism Revealed16 May, 05:54 GMT。    北京时间8月18日，闹得沸沸扬扬的快船“阴阳合同”事件迎来戏剧性转折。ESPN多位名记联合报道，NBA联盟经过长达11个月的调查，目前没有发现证据证明快船老板鲍尔默通过球队赞助商向科怀伦纳德输送资金以规避工资帽。         在今天凌晨，快船官方迅速发表正式声明，全盘否认所有指控。并声明承认曾将伦纳德引荐给球队商业伙伴，但强调这是联盟常规操作；所有商业合作均基于正常商业标准；核心事实是快船从未向伦纳德输送资金，也从未在正式合同外提供任何未公开酬劳。         然而事件在今天清晨又再次反转，ESPN报道发出后不久，NBA官方发言人迈克巴斯发表声明严厉驳斥，指出ESPN的报道“包含大量且重大的不实之处”，NBA官方甚至拒绝配合该报道。官方强调调查仍在进行中，明确结果将在结束后公布。

二 |          这场风波的起因要追溯到2025年9月。当时记者Pablo Torre报道称，伦纳德与一家现已破产的绿色银行Aspiration签下4年2800万美元代言合同。由于鲍尔默曾向该公司投资数千万美元，外界怀疑这是快船绕过工资帽向伦纳德输送资金的“阴阳合同”。

三 | 随后调查范围扩大至至少另外三家与快船有业务往来的公司，包括快船主场巨幕制造商Daktronics。         今年7月下旬，联盟向快船提交了初步调查结果，双方代表近日一直在进行“有时相当激烈”的谈判。与此同时，快船7月1日同意将伦纳德交易至猛龙的1换7大交易目前被迫搁置，猛龙担心承担伦纳德可能面临的任何处罚风险，联盟已明确告知猛龙需自行承担后续结果对伦纳德的直接影响。         值得注意的是，鲍尔默态度异常强硬，他在与密友的交谈中坚称不会接受联盟认定他或球队有意规避工资帽的调查结果，会将此事提交仲裁。

四 | 一旦进入仲裁程序，整个事件的解决时间可能被进一步拉长。         上赛季伦纳德代表快船出战65场常规赛，场均27.9分6.4篮板3.6助攻，三项命中率分别为50.5%/38.7%/89.2%，这位两届FMVP得主的未来，如今悬而未决，但猛龙跟快船这边交易应该会如期进行的！          从目前来看，ESPN称“查无实据”，NBA官方说“报道不实”，快船坚称“清白” ，三方各执一词，调查尚未结束，真相仍在路上。

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