CRISPR gene-editing therapy has shown great potential to treat and even cure diseases, but scientists are now discovering how it can be used to prevent them as well. A team of researchers found a way ...

Each year, 263 million people get malaria. But from the parasite's perspective, infecting humans is harder than you might think, and requires completing an epic journey within the tiny body of a ...

Local health officials are still investigating how a Pierce County woman who hadn’t traveled recently might have contracted malaria — but however it happened, the situation involved “an unusual ...

Summer barbecues have a special place in my heart. The smell of charcoal-grilled burgers. Ice-cold fizzy drinks. Music, laughs—and the incessant buzzing of mosquitoes. While mostly a nuisance at ...

An insistent buzzing at sunset followed by itchy, spotted legs. Here in Denmark, mosquitoes are mostly an annoying—but ...

A New Jersey resident has developed a case of malaria without having traveled internationally, potentially making it the first locally transmitted case in decades, state health officials say. The ...

A Morris County resident may have contracted the illness locally, which would be the first known instance in decades of someone being exposed while in the state. By Samantha Latson New Jersey ...

Major Obstacles Still Remain before the strain can be released from the lab, soberly notes Art Chimes at Voice of America. "Creating a genetically-modified mosquito to prevent malaria transmission is ...