A drug used to treat a rare inherited disease has been found to make human blood toxic to malaria-carrying mosquitoes. It ...

It’s important to note that nitisinone does not itself protect against malaria infection. However, by killing the mosquitoes before they can lay eggs, the drug might be able to knock down ...

New research suggests an existing medicine could turn human blood into poison for mosquitos, killing them within hours.

Nitisinone, a drug that is already used to treat two genetic diseases, could be repurposed to control the spread of malaria, ...

Scientists have found a surprising way to fight malaria—by making human blood deadly to mosquitoes. A forgotten drug from the 1990s is suddenly at the center of this breakthrough. The method doesn’t ...

Scientists have discovered that a drug called nitisinone, used to treat a rare genetic disorder, makes human blood toxic to malaria-carrying mosquitoes. When mosquitoes bite someone taking the drug, ...

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

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Scientists may have found a solution to stop the spread of malaria: poisoning mosquitoes with human blood. New research suggests that the mosquito-borne malady can be curbed by getting the insects to ...

Scientists have found that a drug called nitisinone, which is used to treat people with a rare inherited disease called tyrosinemia, makes human blood toxic to mosquitoes. Although it does not prevent ...