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

Low doses of a drug already approved for treating rare genetic conditions in humans kills mosquitoes dead. Scientists say it ...

gambiae has been called the world’s most ... George Bernard / Science Source Anopheles mosquitoes (shown here in the Perugia lab) exist on every continent apart from Antarctica, but most ...

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 ...

Four people diagnosed with alkaptonuria donated their blood for the study, which was fed to female anopheles gambiae mosquitoes - the primary mosquito species responsible for spreading malaria in many ...

Nitisinone, usually prescribed for metabolic disorders, kills mosquitoes when present in human blood. Researchers have explored a new approach to combat malaria using nitisinone, a drug ...

In a breakthrough that could change the course of malaria control, scientists have discovered a new drug, nitisinone, which can significantly suppress the mosquito population, thereby reducing malaria ...

Four people diagnosed with alkaptonuria donated their blood for the study, which was fed to female anopheles gambiae mosquitoes - the primary mosquito species responsible for spreading malaria in ...

A molecular quality-control system in Anopheles mosquitoes-the species responsible for most of the world's malaria cases-is a promising target for future malaria-control strategies, according to a ...