On World Malaria Day, we explore how malaria differs from other mosquito-borne diseases—from the mosquito species involved to ...

With increasing malaria treatment failures, understanding the causes of resistance and adjusting strategies, including new ...

The AI system is designed to detect a patient's malaria infection status automatically by analyzing blood smear microphotographs. Although one of the most difficult aspects of building the system is ...

Chips, takeout, even bread pile on sodium, jacking up blood pressure without a sound. High pressure squeezes arteries, wearing them thin and priming them for clots or bursts—the stroke double ...

Female Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes transmit malaria parasites between humans ... Marcos Sterkel and Pedro Oliveira discovered that blood-feeding insects, such as fleas, flies, and mosquitoes ...

Objectives: Identification of abnormal promyelocytes is crucial for early diagnosis of Acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL) and for reducing the early mortality rate of APL patients, which can be ...

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 ...

The study involved testing blood samples from alkaptonuria patients on Anopheles gambiae, the primary malaria vector in Africa. Researchers found that when mosquitoes fed on blood containing ...

There are various approaches being utilized to lower mosquito numbers and the risk of malaria. One such method involves the use of the antiparasitic drug ivermectin. When mosquitoes consume blood ...

Researchers have discovered that a medication typically prescribed for rare diseases could make human blood deadly for mosquitoes, offering a potential lead to curb diseases such as malaria.

In a major turn of event, scientists have come up with a bold new approach to control mosquito populations and combat malaria. The plan involves adding a drug to human blood that is toxic to ...