Olfactor Laboratories, Inc. (OLI) is designing and developing products that can be part of the world-wide strategy to significantly reduce diseases spread by insects. Today, based on an OLI developed patent-pending list of compounds that can disrupt a mosquito's host-seeking behavior, OLI's products can effectively prevent mosquitos and other vector insects from finding blood-meal hosts - and therefore have the potential of dramatically altering the transmission rates of deadly, insect carried diseases among human and other animal populations.
Additionally, OLI product development efforts include investigating compounds that can artificially activate the carbon dioxide receptor neuron. These products that mimic CO2 response can act as lures to draw mosquitos into trapping systems strategically placed away from the vicinity of humans and other animals. Currently trapping systems are limited by having to use cylinders (expensive, difficult to manage in the field) or dry ice (short-lasting, labor intensive) to produce carbon dioxide as a lure. Some areas of the world cannot obtain either cylinders or dry ice, and insect catch rates are greatly reduced which hampers insect surveillance.
