Explore the potential of nitisinone as a mosquito killer. A new drug shows promise in the fight against malaria-carrying ...

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

Nitisinone, a drug for rare diseases, kills mosquitoes when present in human blood and may become a new tool to fight malaria ...

Nitisinone, a drug for genetic disorders, could help control malaria by making human blood toxic to mosquitoes. Anopheles ...

In a breakthrough that could change the course of malaria control, scientists have discovered a new drug, nitisinone, which ...

Malaria is a vector-borne disease caused by the parasite Plasmodium and transmitted to humans through the bite of the Anopheles mosquito. While the parasitic disease is usually treated with the drug ...

A molecular quality-control system in Anopheles mosquitoes-the species responsible for most of the world's malaria cases-is a promising target for future malaria-control strategies, according to a ...

Nitisinone was shown to last longer than ivermectin in the human bloodstream, and was able to kill not only mosquitoes of all ...

Four people diagnosed with alkaptonuria donated their blood for the study, which was fed to female anopheles gambiae mosquitoes - the primary mosquito species responsible for spreading malaria in ...

Rising temperatures are driving the expansion of the tiger mosquito into Europe and increasing the prevalence of toxic plants ...

Currently, several approaches are used to reduce mosquito numbers and limit malaria transmission. One method involves the use ...