Malaria cases have skyrocketed in Djibouti in recent years. Rachel Schraer reports on a British company helping produce ...

The findings might overturn a widely held belief that only females pose a disease risk to people, though more research is ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently issued Level 2 travel advisories for several countries ...

DNA extracted from mosquito blood meals revealed traces of 86 vertebrate species, helping scientists track entire ecosystems.

Gnat bites cause small, itchy red bumps that you can treat at home by cleaning and icing the area. You can wear protective clothing and use insect repellents to prevent gnat bites. Over-the-counter ...

Necrobotics is a field of engineering that builds robots out of a mix of synthetic materials and animal body parts. It has produced micro-grippers with pneumatically operated legs taken from dead ...

The Aedes aegypti mosquito that can carry dengue, yellow fever, and Zika was thought to be too reliant on a hot and wet climate to survive in the Mountain West. But now, a population is thriving in ...