A drug used to treat a rare inherited disease has been found to make human blood toxic to malaria-carrying mosquitoes. It ...

Nitisinone, a drug that is already used to treat two genetic diseases, could be repurposed to control the spread of malaria, ...

A single dose of the drug nitisinone could render a person’s blood lethal to mosquitoes for five days, modelling suggests.

New research suggests an existing medicine could turn human blood into poison for mosquitos, killing them within hours.

Nitisinone, usually prescribed for metabolic disorders, kills mosquitoes when present in human blood. Researchers have explored a new approach to combat malaria using nitisinone, a drug ...

Scientists have discovered that a drug called nitisinone, used to treat a rare genetic disorder, makes human blood toxic to ...