Government advisers say they need innovations that would help to control the disease, both the parasite and the vector ...

Low doses of a drug already approved for treating rare genetic conditions in humans kills mosquitoes dead. Scientists say it ...

This is because the female anopheles mosquito thrives in hot ... After the airborne portion of their life cycle, female mosquitoes usually lay eggs on the surface of water or in areas where ...

Female mosquitoes require the nutrients (mainly vitamins) in blood to produce eggs. Mosquitoes feed primarily on vertebrates ... They feed at night on humans and animals and are found indoors and ...

Malaria, responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year worldwide, is caused by a parasite transmitted through the salivary glands of female Anopheles mosquitoes. Understanding the ...

The Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) has extended its research on the behaviour of genetically modified mosquitoes to ... mosquitoes by having them lay fewer eggs compared to the 300 eggs ...