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 the fight against malaria, controlling the mosquito population is crucial. Several methods are currently used to reduce ...

He said: "The probability is that mosquitoes that carry diseases like malaria will eventually become resident in Ireland. Of ...

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As the malaria season is set to begin this month in a large part of Africa, local health officials are concerned over the impact of Trump administration’s decision to cut funds. In Africa, no ...

Tiger mosquitoes - which can carry diseases such as dengue fever - have been spotted in all areas of France, and health authorities have advice for the public on how to stop their spread. The insects ...

A combination of methods, including a new method for tagging genes, demonstrates that the chemosensory co-receptors of Drosophila melanogaster (Orco, IR8a, IR25a, IR76b) are expressed widely and ...

Mosquitoes might be the bane of a summer barbecue in Kendall or a stroll on Miami Beach, but researchers in Florida are now also looking at the insects' more obscure targets—and how even a tiny ...

In a recent study, researcher Anandasankar Ray at the University of California, Riverside, and his team employed machine learning techniques combined with cheminformatics to predict novel mosquito ...

A deadly mosquito-borne virus is spreading across three states, with a second confirmed case identified in Victoria. Japanese encephalitis has infected a second northern Victorian resident this ...

The potential for adaptive evolution to enable species persistence under a changing climate is one of the most important questions for understanding impacts of future climate change. Climate ...