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

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

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

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.

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

Space changes the human body in many ways. From bone loss to bloated faces, here's how microgravity and radiation affect the ...

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

Our blood consists of many cell types that develop through different stages from a precursor type—the blood stem cell. An ...

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are back on Earth - but what has nine months in space done to them?