Malaria

Resistance to ciprofloxacin has emerged in people without access to the antibiotic, but who have taken a related antimalarial

The challenge of controlling the disease in Africa by 2010 is fundamentally organizational, not technical

Stephen Hoffman has given years of sweat—and lots of blood—on his quest to stop a global killer

Volunteers in Seattle chance getting the disease in a bid to defeat it

Proactive African countries see fewer children felled by the mosquito-borne disease

Bugs engineered to avoid transmitting the disease could outcompete bugs that do transmit it

New data shows that the RTS,S vaccine is safe and effective in infants

One of the world's worst killers can be stopped soon if we make the investment

Using work done to rapidly introduce a transgenic element in fruit flies, researchers hope to cure mosquitoes—and humans—of malaria

If transgenic mosquitoes immune to malaria could outcompete and replace regular mosquitoes, they could help keep people free of the disease

In a step toward controlling malaria, transgenic mosquitoes engineered to resist the malaria parasite reproduce more successfully than normal mosquitoes when fed on infected mice.