SATURDAY, Sept. 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Researchers in the Netherlands turned a major music festival into an unexpected laboratory to investigate a question that has long puzzled scientists and bug-bitten individuals alike: What makes some people more irresistible to mosquitoes than others?

For three consecutive days at the Lowlands festival in Biddinghuizen, Netherlands, scientists set up a unique pop-up research site inside a series of shipping container laboratories.

Instead of waiting for their favorite band, hundreds of festivalgoers lined up to volunteer for the “Mosquito Magnet Trial,” a study designed to measure their personal attractiveness to the insects.

Inside the make-shift lab from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. each day, groups of participants rested their arms against transparent

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