Researchers can now track the expansion of a resistance mechanism that allows the malaria vector Anopholes funestus to detoxify a key insecticide used on bed nets.

The parasite that causes malaria has evolved to evade many of the drugs that researchers have developed to fight the tropical disease.

Plasmodium falciparum has shown an ability to evade everything we throw at it, most recently artemisinin-based combination therapies, today’s front-line treatment.

No females were produced after eight generations, causing the population to collapse.

Climate change may open up new habitats suitable for the virus’s spread.

A Florida teenager is the first person with a confirmed infection by the mosquito-borne virus.

Geckos could help control mosquito-borne diseases, but their effectiveness depends on the environment.

The US government has approved the deployment of the lab-raised insects to eliminate the Zika- and dengue-transmitting Asian tiger mosquito.

In lab populations of genetically engineered mosquitoes, mutations arose that blocked the gene drive’s spread and restored female fertility.