From San Francisco, at the spring national meeting of the American Chemical Society
The next time a male cockroach checks into a roach motel it might be surprised to find family-planning services included.
In what may be the first step toward developing cockroach birth control, Cornell University entomologists Zhimou Wen and Jeffrey G. Scott identified several genes for a family of enzymes, called P450 proteins, that German cockroaches use to break down insecticides and other toxic compounds.