In a high-security lab in Italy, scientists have launched a large-scale experiment to genetically modify mosquitoes with an end goal of potentially eradicating malaria in Africa.
Intellectual Ventures has put some of the profits from licensing patents into developing breakthrough health-care technologies that nobody else has been able to pursue.
A new genetic engineering technology could help fight malaria, but can it be used responsibly?
Habitat destruction isn’t just killing wildlife—it’s killing us.
A new study shows the smells can both attract and repel mosquitoes at different stages of the disease. The results might help us fight back.
To wipe out malaria, scientists have developed a genetic manipulation that limits female offspring.
Malaria research needs a steady supply of mosquitoes, and breeding them involves extreme self-sacrifice.
In the war against malaria, one small corner of the globe has repeatedly turned the tide, rendering our best weapons moot and medicine on the brink of defeat.
Drugs made from plants are often too expensive for the people who need them. A group of scientists may have found a solution.
After a May report finding a third of the malaria pills inspected in Asia and Africa were counterfeit, observers piled on pharmaceutical companies in India and China as likely bad guys. But the truth is a little harder to swallow.
Researchers across California are working to bring medical microscopes to our cellphones — and vastly improve field medicine.
Once derided as the wrong path forward in fighting this mosquito-borne killer, a new malaria vaccine offers decent results and renewed hope.
In the "AIDS exceptionalism" debate, emotions run high, and the options are difficult: Shift some AIDS funding to other care, or find billions in new support.
Unlocking a bug’s chastity belt could open doors to a targeted insecticide to provide new hope in the fight against malaria.
Dutch researchers have characterized a large number of parasite proteins that could prove useful in the development of a human malaria vaccine.
