In a breakthrough that could change the course of malaria control, scientists have discovered a new drug, nitisinone, which ...

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

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

In a nutshell A rare disease drug may help fight malaria. Nitisinone, a medication approved for rare genetic conditions, ...

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

Malaria is a vector-borne disease caused by the parasite Plasmodium and transmitted to humans through the bite of the Anopheles mosquito. While the parasitic disease is usually treated with the drug ...

Nitisinone was shown to last longer than ivermectin in the human bloodstream, and was able to kill not only mosquitoes of all ...

A molecular quality-control system in Anopheles mosquitoes-the species responsible for most of the world's malaria ... In the interim, a strategy using antibody-containing mosquito baits that ...

Currently, several approaches are used to reduce mosquito numbers and limit malaria transmission. One method involves the use ...

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 ...

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.