Scientists have a radical new plan for controlling mosquito numbers and fighting malaria: lacing human blood with a drug that ...

Researchers from Auburn University, in a landmark collaboration with Brazil's Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), the world's ...

In a nutshell A rare disease drug may help fight malaria. Nitisinone, a medication approved for rare genetic conditions, ...

Nitisinone was shown to last longer than ivermectin in the human bloodstream, and was able to kill not only mosquitoes of all ages -- including the older ones that are most likely to transmit malaria ...

Pet owners are always very conscientious about any health problems their animals pick up in case it leads to something more ...

The person received the transplant at a hospital in Ohio in December, before they died the following month, health officials ...

It may be disturbing to characterize human bodies in such commodifying terms, but the unavoidable reality is that human ...

At meeting on human embryo editing, CRISPR pioneer says science is a long way from knowing if germline DNA can be safely ...

The Trump administration is eliminating 10,000 jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services as part of a restructuring ...

Gov. Phil Murphy said the cuts would create "an unfillable void in funding that will have disastrous ramifications for our ...

Evolution is nature's engine, driving and shaping genetic change and the diversity around us. Charles Darwin famously ...

For human health, prematurely aging cells are a big problem. When a cell ages and stops growing, its function changes, which can cause or worsen cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease and other ...