A group of UC scientists led by Greg Lanzaro, professor of pathology, microbiology and immunology in the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, recently completed an analysis of a strategy aimed at ...

The malaria prevention and vector control research group investigates how Plasmodium falciparum survives and spreads by integrating parasite biology, host immunity, and vector ecology. We study how ...

Dean: Faculty of Health Sciences and Director: UP Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control, University of Pretoria Malaria is a serious, complex and often fatal vector-borne disease caused by the ...

Jenny Carlson Donnelly traveled to malaria-affected countries to test mosquitoes and save lives. Then she lost her job at U.S.A.I.D.

In a new study published in Nature, scientists have successfully developed genetically modified mosquitoes in Tanzania that block the transmission of malaria. The team includes researchers from the ...

Genetically engineered mosquitoes have been released in the tiny East African country of Djibouti to combat a surge in malaria infections caused by an invasive vector. The mosquito species has also ...

Working underground in a Biosafety Level 3 insectary in Tres Cantos, Madrid, researchers at the pharmaceutical giant GSK were frustrated.The mosquitoes they were using to study experimental medicines ...

Few may know that today – August 20 – marks the relatively obscure observance of World Mosquito Day, but mosquitoes (Spanish for “little flies”) are far from obscure. These insects have coexisted with ...

Malaria cases are on the rise in Delhi as the city has recorded 264 cases so far this year – highest in the last five years in the corresponding period, according to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi ...