Summertime calls most of us to spend a nice evening outdoors, but that can sometimes turn into a horribly itchy ordeal, particularly for “mosquito magnets.”
A new study published on Oct. 18 in the journal Cell by researchers at Rockefeller University suggests that some individuals are more attractive to the tiny blood-sucking insects than others due to having a higher level of certain chemicals in the skin.
“There’s a very, very strong association between having large quantities of these fatty acids on your skin and being a mosquito magnet,” says Leslie Vosshall, a co-author of the study and neurobiologist at the New York-based private university….