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

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

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

Discover nitisinone, a drug for rare diseases that could also combat mosquitoes and their transmission of malaria.

A study in Science Translational Medicine found when patients take the drug nitisinone, their blood becomes deadly to ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The research team tested the mosquitocidal effect of nitisinone on female Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, the primary mosquito species responsible for spreading malaria in many African countries.