Mosquitoes are Mother Nature’s tiniest yet most persistent villains. They’re responsible for malaria, which remains one of ...

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

This tiny insect is responsible for spreading malaria, a disease that infected ... to deliver an antimalaria vaccine with each bite. As The New England Journal of Medicine reported in November ...

Malaria could be as dangerous to GIs in the Pacific theater of World War II as the enemy. To fight it, they used hammers and ...

Laboratory testing has proven that a recent deadly disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo was caused by malaria ...

However, nearer the equator, temperatures are much higher. Here, insect bites can lead to malaria, sleeping sickness, dengue fever, or the Zika virus. Insect bites typically cause a small ...

Only a relatively small number of modified mosquitoes would need to be released for the whole population to effectively become malaria resistant, says a geneticist working on the project.

Mar. 5, 2025 — Antimalarial drug resistance is a pressing issue in combating the spread of malaria worldwide. In a new study, researchers discovered a key process where malarial parasites take ...

Found mostly in the tropics, malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites carried by mosquitoes and can be entirely prevented by avoiding mosquito bites or with medication. The research is part of a ...