The mosquito-borne infectious disease malaria resulted in about 241 million clinical episodes and 627,000 deaths in 2020. In young children and pregnant women living in areas where the disease is ...
Research led by the Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, has developed a gene drive solution for mitigating malaria transmission from mosquitoes ...
A new approach to antimalarial development, aided by high-throughput screening, could help to overcome resistance.
Mosquitoes carry malaria, which kills hundreds of thousands of people each year. Now some researchers are trying to use genetic engineering to make the pesky insects into allies in the fight against ...
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 ...
Prisca Kweyamba, a research scientist at the Ifakara Health Institute’s Transmission Zero Project - Abbie Trayler-Smith/Abbie Trayler-Smith Bed nets and insecticides have long been used in the battle ...