Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Malaria remains a daily threat across Africa. In 2023 alone, the continent accounted for 95% of the world’s 597,000 ...

Insecticides have been used for centuries to counteract widespread pest damage to valuable food crops. Eventually, over time, beetles, moths, flies and other insects develop genetic mutations that ...

On World Mosquito Day, Target Malaria, a not-for-profit research consortium, has called for more investment in technology, talent and partnerships to defeat malaria, a disease that kills over half a ...

Research on gene drive systems is rapidly advancing. Many proposed applications of gene drive research aim to solve environmental and public health challenges. However, due to their intrinsic ...

A novel CRISPR-based technology can spread within bacterial populations to eliminate antibiotic resistance. In a potential breakthrough for tackling antibiotic resistance, researchers from the ...

Mosquitoes are an uncomfortable, itchy nuisance. But for people in sub-Saharan Africa, a bite could mean death. The pests are living incubators for the parasite that causes malaria. Roughly 600,000 ...

The words “herpes” and “spread” in the same sentence don’t typically spell good news. Unless, that is, you’re talking about a busybody new virus. That virus includes designer DNA called a gene drive ...

Dr. Zoloth is a professor of religion and ethics at the University of Chicago and the author of “May We Make the World? Gene Drives, Malaria, and the Future of Nature.” Bold ideas in science research ...