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

Malaria, responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year worldwide, is caused by a parasite transmitted through the ...

"The mosquito is one of the deadliest animals on the planet," declared two South African researchers in a recent Nature article. This tiny insect is responsible for spreading malaria ...

Mosquito identification and tracking have long aided public health efforts to prevent and treat mosquito-spread diseases, such as malaria, dengue, yellow fever, or West Nile virus. But various factors ...

In the fight against malaria, controlling the mosquito population is crucial. Several methods are currently used to reduce ...

Malaria can cause shaking ... a playing field then trying to put them together again.' The draft of the mosquito genome was produced by a team of more than 100 U.S. scientists led by Dr Robert ...

A drug for a rare disease makes human blood deadly to mosquitoes and could help in the fight against malaria, researchers have found. Several methods are currently used to reduce mosquito numbers ...

Controlling the mosquito population is essential in the battle against malaria. There are various approaches being utilized to lower mosquito numbers and the risk of malaria. One such method ...

The ferret’s genome was altered with CRISPR to ... The only current method of protecting birds from malaria is to kill the mosquitoes by spreading powerful chemicals over an enormous region.

Essential Genome of Malaria Parasite Plasmodium Knowlesi Mapped Feb. 6, 2025 — A new, comprehensive map of all the genes essential for blood infections in Plasmodium knowlesi (P. knowlesi), a ...

Scientists may have found a solution to stop the spread of malaria: poisoning mosquitoes with human blood. New research ...