Scientists may have found a solution to stop the spread of malaria: poisoning mosquitoes with human blood. New research ...

Nitisinone, a drug for rare diseases, kills mosquitoes when present in human blood and may become a new tool to fight malaria ...

Scientists have a radical new plan for controlling mosquito numbers and fighting malaria: lacing human blood with a drug that ...

Mosquitoes are Mother Nature’s tiniest yet most persistent villains. They’re responsible for malaria, which remains one of ...

A great resource for this is The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Timothy G. Winegard. Mosquitoes have six "needles". Two function like electric knives to cut the skin, two ...

Revealing their results in a paper published in Science Translational Medicine, the researchers report that the medication nitisinone makes human blood deadly to mosquitoes. “One way to stop the ...

Low doses of a drug already approved for treating rare genetic conditions in humans kills mosquitoes dead. Scientists say it could be a valuable new tool in the fight against disease. Female ...