Health & Medicine / Malaria

Battling Malaria, Ninja-Style

In the evolutionary arms race to defeat the disease, subtle and indirect maneuvers like targeting old mosquitoes and locking malaria inside blood cells may ultimately prove most effective. 07.09.2009

#34: Anti-Malaria Gene Boosts HIV Vulnerability

An adaptation against tropical disease makes people of African descent more prone to AIDS. 12.16.2008

Sliced: The Deadliest Animal

Mosquitoes kill 2 million people per year. Do they have any vulnerabilities? 06.10.2008

Can a Maligned Pesticide Save Lives?

DDT may be a useful public-health tool—until its effect wears off... 11.20.2007

The Year in Science: Biology

Giant squid sighting, mice that regenerate body parts, sweet-smelling parasites, and more. 01.09.2006

Infectious Diseases

The race is on to develop medicines faster and keep ahead of bacteria and viruses. 10.24.2005

Fighting the Parasite from Hell

Deaths from malaria are rising as older medicines fail 08.06.2005

Discover Data

06.06.2005

Mosquito Barricade

04.28.2005

Making a New Mosquito

Will tinkering make mosquitoes better or worse? 05.01.2001

A Sleeping Storm

Sleeping sickness - once thought to be vanquished - is raging back across Africa. At the center of the epidemic, an American doctor is trying to clear a small patch of good health. 08.01.1998

Malarial Dreams

Malaria kills 2.7 million people each year, most of them children. As a new generation of vaccines begin clinical trials, researchers wonder if they've finally got this killer beat. 03.01.1998

The Year in Science: Medicine 1997

Perchance to Die 01.01.1998

The Dream Vaccine

The world craves an effective, risk-free vaccine against recalcitrant foes like AIDS and malaria. Creating mock infections with tiny rings of bacterial DNA may be the answer. 09.01.1997

Bad Air Gets Worse

03.01.1996

Race Without Color

Basing race on body chemistry makes no more sense than basing race on appearance--but at least you get to move the membership around. 11.01.1994