The preference of some mosquitoes in the Anopheles leucosphyrus (Leucosphyrus) group—including those that transmit ...

Chia-Yu Chen receives funding from the National Research Foundation and the Carnegie Postdoctoral Grant. Shüné Oliver receives funding from the National Research Foundation, South Africab Medical ...

Researchers have created a "mosquito STD" in an effort to stop the pesky pests from spreading malaria to humans.A team of researchers that included a University of Maryland entomologist came up with a ...

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 ...

The fungus is fatal to mosquitoes, but harmless to humans. By Laura Baisas Published Jun 4, 2025 10:00 AM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

New research shows most Hawaiian forest birds carry avian malaria, fueling widespread transmission and raising extinction ...

Avian malaria is spreading across Hawaiʻi in a way scientists didn’t fully grasp until now: nearly every forest bird species can help keep the disease alive. Researchers found the parasite at 63 of 64 ...

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 ...

Daniel Stolte, science writer for UA Communications, tells us: For years, researchers worldwide have attempted to create genetically altered mosquitoes that cannot infect humans with malaria. Those ...

SEATTLE — 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 ...