Scientists have discovered that a drug called nitisinone, used to treat a rare genetic disorder, makes human blood toxic to ...

A single dose of the drug nitisinone could render a person’s blood lethal to mosquitoes for five days, modelling suggests.

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

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Recent findings suggest that chimpanzees have evolved unique genetic mechanisms that help them resist malaria, offering ...

A drug used to treat a rare inherited disease has been found to make human blood toxic to malaria-carrying mosquitoes. It could provide another tool to reduce deadly insect populations. Mosquitoes are ...

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

A new study published Wednesday suggests that a rare medication has the potential to make human blood deadly to mosquitoes.

Malaria is a vector-borne disease caused by the parasite Plasmodium and transmitted to humans through the bite of the ...

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

CD163 might not be the most exciting name in the world, but behind it lies one of the body's most important defense receptors ...

"One way to stop the spread of diseases transmitted by insects is to make the blood of animals and humans toxic," according ...