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 freon grenades.

What if mosquitoes could deliver not just the disease but the protection to an infection that kills hundreds of thousands of ...

Expanding Habitats Rising global temperatures are not just making the world a hotter place; they're also expanding the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

BioNTech said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has placed a clinical hold on an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Professor Giorgos Christophides discusses the major research currently underway – If a small number of modified mosquitoes ...

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