Cyanide is a highly lethal chemical that has been used in warfare and poisonings for centuries—that was the general consensus ...

Mpox has the potential to become a significant global health threat if taken too lightly, according to scientists at the ...

Mpox has the potential to become a significant global health threat if taken too lightly, according to scientists at the University of Surrey.

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

You may have heard of the fantastic-sounding "dark side of the genome." This poorly studied fraction of DNA, known as ...

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

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

Nitisinone was shown to last longer than ivermectin in the human bloodstream, and was able to kill not only mosquitoes of all ages -- including the older ones that are most likely to transmit malaria ...

Enzymes originally evolved in high-temperature environments and later adapted to lower temperatures as Earth cooled.