Sarasota County commissioners officially cut the ribbon on a state-of-the-art Mosquito Management Services facility near ...

Over the last couple of decades, rapid diagnostic tests have emerged as a vital tool in the fight to control malaria. The relatively inexpensive test strips, which work in just minutes, have diagnosed ...

Amplino may be the ultimate garage project. Three DIY bio-hackers have created a mobile malaria testing kit they claim can identify different strains of malaria with higher accuracy, and at lower ...

Rapid tests, which are easy to deploy and require minimal equipment, provide an important diagnostic tool in the ongoing effort against malaria, which affects more than 250 million people around the ...

A novel testing platform under development by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and CytoAstra, LLC could provide a new noninvasive test for malaria that doesn't require a blood ...

A multi-disciplinary research collaboration created a field-applicable, ultrasensitive diagnostic assay that specifically detects DNA sequences from all Plasmodium species in symptomatic and ...

Since 2010, a biological drama has been playing out in the bloodstreams of humans from Peru to Ethiopia. Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes the most common form of malaria, has managed to ...

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), in collaboration with colleagues across the country, found that ...

New Haven, Conn. — Almost half of the world’s population is at risk of malaria infection, with children and pregnant women at the highest risk of getting sick and dying from the disease. Current ...

Malaria imposes a substantial global disease burden. It disproportionately affects sub-Saharan Africans, particularly young children. In an effort to improve disease management, the World Health ...

A disease transmitted by the bite of a tiny insect—one that once devastated entire armies—remains among the leading causes of ...