A team from UC San Diego, John Hopkins and UC Berkeley Universities found a way to edit a single gene in a mosquito that prevented it from transmitting malaria.

The July 4th weekend is a beautiful time to get out and enjoy the great outdoors, but let's face it, there's beauty and the beasts...mosquitoes.

Bier remarked that this new approach is not a stand-alone measure but will be most successful when applied alongside other malaria prevention strategies, including mosquito population suppression.

IN the fight against malaria, global health workers have long relied on bed nets treated with insecticide to ward off disease-transmitting mosquitos. But with insecticide resistance rising, a new ...

Blood suckers, beware. In a buzzy new study, researchers found that the controversial drug ivermectin could become a powerful new weapon against malaria. With mosquitos increasingly outsmarting ...

CRISPR gene-editing therapy has shown great potential to treat and even cure diseases, but scientists are now discovering how it can be used to prevent them as well. A team of researchers found a ...