A single dose of the drug nitisinone could render a person’s blood lethal to mosquitoes for five days, modelling suggests.

Every year, the fruit flies and mosquitoes return to my kitchen, drawn to the illicit aroma of unlidded pasta sauce and the ...

Scientists may have found a solution to stop the spread of malaria: poisoning mosquitoes with human blood. New research ...

There are foods that are high in potassium, like bananas, that can possibly cause more attractiveness for mosquitoes because ...

One of these includes the antiparasitic medication ivermectin. When mosquitoes ingest blood containing ivermectin, it shortens the insect's lifespan and helps decrease the spread of malaria.

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

A new drug that makes human blood poisonous to mosquitoes could be a vital new tool to fight malaria. The drug, called ...

Discover nitisinone, a drug for rare diseases that could also combat mosquitoes and their transmission of malaria.

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

Recent research has revealed that nitisinone, a drug originally used to treat rare genetic conditions, can fatally disrupt a ...