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

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

In a breakthrough that could change the course of malaria control, scientists have discovered a new drug, nitisinone, which ...

In a nutshell A rare disease drug may help fight malaria. Nitisinone, a medication approved for rare genetic conditions, ...

Malaria is a vector-borne disease caused by the parasite Plasmodium and transmitted to humans through the bite of the ...

Nitisinone, a drug for genetic disorders, could help control malaria by making human blood toxic to mosquitoes. Anopheles ...

A molecular quality-control system in Anopheles mosquitoes—the species responsible for most of the world’s malaria cases—is a promising target for future malaria-control strategies, according to a ...

Nitisinone was shown to last longer than ivermectin in the human bloodstream, and was able to kill not only mosquitoes of all ...

According to Memusi, research has shown that at 18 C it takes the malaria parasite 51 days to mature. The average life span of the female Anopheles mosquito is about three weeks. At lower temperatures ...