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Before they hit store shelves, these products need to be trialled, and that's where the London lab's six-legged inhabitants come in. The school's insectaries are located directly beneath Keppel Street and Gower Street in Bloomsbury, and house mosquitoes from dozens of different strains in cages of white net. One of the underground vaults was an air raid shelter in World War II, but with the addition of heat and humidity controls it's now the perfect environment for raising baby mozzies.
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