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 ...

More information: Ethan Bier, Driving a protective allele of the mosquito FREP1 gene to combat malaria, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09283-6 ...