Recent research has revealed that nitisinone, a drug originally used to treat rare genetic conditions, can fatally disrupt a ...

Low doses of a drug already approved for treating rare genetic conditions in humans kills mosquitoes dead. Scientists say it ...

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Nitisinone, a drug for rare diseases, kills mosquitoes when present in human blood and may become a new tool to fight malaria ...

Nitisinone, a drug for genetic disorders, could help control malaria by making human blood toxic to mosquitoes. Anopheles ...

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

In a medical breakthrough, scientists in the US have found that a medicine typically prescribed for rare genetic disorders ...

In a nutshell A rare disease drug may help fight malaria. Nitisinone, a medication approved for rare genetic conditions, killed malaria-carrying mosquitoes after they fed on treated human blood — ...

Nitisinone was shown to last longer than ivermectin in the human bloodstream, and was able to kill not only mosquitoes of all ...

Currently, several approaches are used to reduce mosquito numbers and limit malaria transmission. One method involves the use ...

A new study published Wednesday suggests that a rare medication has the potential to make human blood deadly to mosquitoes.