In a large laboratory cage, a male mosquito carries a genetic weapon that could launch the destruction of his species. That loss could also mean the end of the parasite that causes malaria. The weapon ...

For the first time in 20 years, five people have picked up malaria on U.S. soil. On June 26, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory, announcing that over the last ...

A problem that has seemed intractable for decades may finally be cracking: How to create affordable drug therapies for people who don't offer pharmaceutical companies a commercial market? Jay Keasling ...

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 ...

Prof. Leslie Leiserowitz first became intrigued by malaria when he was a young boy in South Africa. His father, who scouted the continent in search of wood for the family business, brought back not ...

Antibodies that bind to a previously untargeted portion of the malaria parasite could lead to new monoclonal antibody treatments and vaccines for malaria. A novel class of antibodies that binds to a ...

A three-dose regimen of a whole-parasite vaccine against malaria -- called Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite (PfSPZ) vaccine -- demonstrated safety and efficacy when tested in adults living in Burkina ...