Malaria and other vector-borne diseases, including dengue and Zika, affect millions globally. More than 400 000 people a year die from malaria alone. If proven safe, effective and affordable, ...

What’s scarier, murder hornets or more than 750 million genetically engineered mosquitoes? Despite complaints from local residents, officials have received final approval to release the swarm of ...

But Harvey-Samuel believes no one single method will save Hawaii’s native birds. His work is at a very early stage, and it could be many years before there are any genetically modified mosquitoes ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given a British company approval to test a new tool in the fight against Zika - genetically engineered mosquitoes. NPR's Greg Allen reports the first test may ...

A British company breeding mosquitoes whose offspring cannot spread malaria is set to start releasing the insects into Djibouti City by the end of the year. Genetically-engineered male mosquitoes ...

Containers hold genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes before being released in Panama City, Panama, in September 2014. The fight against the Zika virus has a new weapon: the genetically ...

There’s not much that's good about mosquitoes. The itch-inducing little suckers kill about 725,000 people a year worldwide through the diseases they transmit: malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, ...

This comes against the backdrop of claims that the Gates Foundation released genetically modified mosquitoes from laboratories into the environment, a claim that sparked a lot of worry amongst Kenyans ...