Burkina Faso’s ruling military government has suspended the activities of Target Malaria, an international research ...

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.

When fed human blood contaminated with malaria, the engineered mosquitoes and their offspring thwarted the parasite. “This antimalaria drive system provides a novel genetic approach to aid in malaria ...

What animal kills more humans than any other? The answer is not rhinos, or tigers, or even sharks. The answer is the tiny mosquito, vector for the Plasmodium parasite that causes malaria. Each year ...

Each year, 263 million people get malaria. But from the parasite's perspective, infecting humans is harder than you might think, and requires completing an epic journey within the tiny body of a ...

Malaria is a preventable and treatable disease that is caused by parasites of the Plasmodium species, which are transmitted to humans through the bites of infected Anopheles mosquitoes.

Kulkarni led a study published in 2016 that found the habitat for malaria-carrying mosquitoes had expanded in the high-elevation Mt. Kilimanjaro region by hundreds of square miles in just 10 years.

In Article Audio PlayerStefan Kappe sticks his left hand into a mosquito-filled Plexiglas box and watches the bugs feed furiously on his blood. Fortunately, they aren’t injecting Kappe with the human ...

World Malaria Day 2025: Every year on April 25, World Malaria Day is observed. This day is a global healthcare initiative that raises awareness about malaria, defined as a killer parasitic disease ...

Up to 30 percent of mosquito bites with the potential to deliver malaria occur indoors during the day when typical control strategies aren’t used, research published yesterday (May 16) in PNAS finds.

WIKIMEDIA, CDC/JAMES GATHANY Mosquitos carrying the malaria parasite are more attracted to human body odor than uninfected mosquitos, according to a study out this week (May 15) in PLOS ONE. “We think ...

The system uses CRISPR-Cas9 "scissors" to cut out an unwanted amino acid (allele) that transmits malaria and replace it with a benign version. The undesirable allele, called L224, helps parasites swim ...