A UCSD team has helped to develop a gene-editing method to prevent mosquitoes from spreading Malaria. It could be a game-changer for countries with ongoing outbreaks.

Ivermectin administered to the whole population significantly reduces malaria transmission, offering new hope in the fight ...

Mosquitoes, a tiny but deadly fly species, is the ultimate killer of humans with between 725,000 and 1,000,000 deaths every ...

Mosquitoes kill more people each year than any other animal. In 2023, the blood-sucking insects infected a reported 263 million people with malaria, leading to nearly 600,000 deaths, 80% of which were ...

A new study reports on a novel way to short-circuit the parasite that spreads the disease so people wouldn’t get infected ...

Mosquitoes engineered to swap out an amino acid in a key protein were resistant to malaria infection, preventing them from transmitting the disease.

The newly developed system uses CRISPR-Cas9 “scissors” and a guide RNA to make a genetic cut at a precise location within the mosquito’s genome. It then replaces the unwanted amino acid that transmits ...

Mosquitoes kill more people each year than any other animal. In 2023, the blood-sucking insects infected a reported 263 ...

For thousands of years malaria was a mysterious illness affecting people across the globe. Even the name of the disease, ‘malaria’, derived from two Italian words meaning ‘bad air’, highlights the ...

It now appears that Hungarian mosquitoes may not just be a nuisance—they could be spreading dangerously serious diseases.

Source: Malaria ‘back with a vengeance’ in Zimbabwe as number of deaths from the disease triple | Global development | The ...