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 ...

Geneticists have developed a gene drive-based solution to the widespread problem of insecticide resistance. In an effort to protect valuable crops, the researchers created an 'e-Drive' that reverses ...

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 ...

Each year, 263 million people get malaria. But from the parasite's perspective, infecting humans is harder than you might think, and requires completing an epic journey within the tiny body of a ...

Dar es Salaam. Tanzania is scaling up the fight against malaria by introducing advanced gene-modification technology targeting mosquitoes that transmit the disease.The ministry of Health said it will ...

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.” See more of our coverage in ...

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 ...