Low doses of a drug already approved for treating rare genetic conditions in humans kills mosquitoes dead. Scientists say it ...

Recall that genes are spelled out by DNA sequences woven into chromosomes, which come in pairs (23 pairs in a human, 3 in a mosquito). A “gene drive” involves copying a mutated gene from one ...

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 ...