Engineered Mosquitoes Could Wipe Out Dengue Fever
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A startup company says new test results show their genetically modified mosquitoes can combat tropical diseases and crop pests. There are skeptics, however.
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The first attempt at gene therapy against Parkinson&#39;s disease has yielded promising results and is safe, according to early data from this ground-breaking experiment.
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A  discovery could lead to drugs to treat a 'forgotten' tropical disease, scientists hope.
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Scientists say they are developing an entirely new way of providing instant protection against flu.
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Scientists have created a synthetic drug which could offer new hope in the fight against malaria. Nearly two billion people live in areas affected by malaria.
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Scientists say they have found how the body controls the machinery it uses to fight infections.
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The battle against dengue fever is being won in Vietnam thanks to a tiny water predator, experts say.
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Scientists say they have found a safer way of controlling genes to treat disease.
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Scientists have created a synthetic drug which could offer new hope in the fight against malaria.
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Japanese scientists have developed a vaccine for the mosquito-borne West Nile virus and will start testing on humans in the coming months, a researcher said Friday.
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Scientists have tested in mice an experimental vaccine for malaria that does not provide immunity but aims to stamp it out in whole regions by eradicating the disease-causing parasite from mosquitoes that spread it.
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illiam C. Reeves, a medical entomologist whose pioneering research into the spread and control of mosquito-borne diseases laid the groundwork for the current nationwide efforts to contain the
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Scientists have found a way of treating potentially fatal diseases by switching off harmful genes. In what is described as one of the most important breakthroughs in decades
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An experimental vaccine can slash the risk that children will get malaria, apparently offering the first effective way to inoculate youngsters against one of the world&#39;s biggest, most intractable killers, researchers reported today.
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British and Kenyan scientists have developed a new treatment for the killer disease malaria.
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An experimental vaccine can slash the risk that children will get malaria, apparently offering the first effective way to inoculate youngsters against one of the world&#39;s biggest
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After more than two decades of research, scientists said Thursday that they had found the first effective vaccine against malaria.