FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Zoe Simone PR Management, Inc. Jeffrey Epstein Highlights New Study on "Rewiring" Mosquitos Scientists have worked for years on efforts to "rewire" mosquitos, efforts that have just recently yielded fruit—and won the attention of science activist and evolutionist. Jeffrey Epstein. New York, New York, January 4, 2013— For close to two years now, scientists Jay Parrish and Jeff Riffell have devoted themselves to what many might consider an unusual endeavor—seeking to "mislead" mosquitos by effectively "rewiring" their brains. The two biologists, working at the University of Washington, have spent months studying the olfactory system of the mosquito, seeking ways to rewrite the behavioral patterns of the bloodsucking insects. The efforts of these two scientists have recently won the attention of scientists from around the country—and from science philanthropists like Jeffrey Epstein. The-seientistz: have made-plain the-foundations-of theircesetiveh-in evolutionttry-seiene iting the-fttet-that-elThetery-instinets-ore-thoughi-te-be-the-ohlest-ef-all-sensepy-expefieneetirthe resettfehert+4,014eve-theic-9ktdies4ti-he-eriteittl-in-better-ufideFsitintling-the-evetntioniterintotinettfrof the-niestittite. The initial ultimate-aim of the research is to determine which, of the 300 human body odors detected by mosquitos, is what ultimately causes the insect to prey on humankind. The implications of the study could prove anything but frivolous; in fact, it could be a major step forward in preventing the lethal diseases spread by the flying creatures. Once determining the most attractive odors. by satirist up a series of odor traps, the scientists genetically silenced the odor receptors in those mosquitoes that gravitated to the most popular odors. Shutting down the correct odor receptors resulted in major behavioral changes in the mosquitoes. Some insects became distinctly lethargic and disoriented after their olfactory r