SINGAPORE - The initiative to control the spread of the Aedes mosquito population by releasing lab-grown male Wolbachia mosquitoes will be extended to four more areas in December. Project Wolbachia ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Judy Stone focuses her writing on infectious diseases. This technique is also far more effective than spraying pesticides, as ...

In this week’s magazine, I write about a controversial new technology that could eventually enable scientists to eliminate an entire species of disease-causing mosquito. The benefits could be great: ...

SINGAPORE: Male Wolbachia-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquitoes will be released in five new sites in the south of Singapore in an effort to combat dengue, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for ...

SINGAPORE: A nondescript industrial building in Ang Mo Kio houses a lab that has bred more than 300 million mosquitos and is producing another 7 million every week. This is the headquarters of Project ...

Photography and video by Federico Rios Escobar for The New York Times. In a laboratory in downtown Medellín, Colombia, it is lunchtime: A technician in a white coat carries a loaded tray into a steamy ...

In the 1970s, William Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura discovered a class of drugs called avermectins that have helped to control two of the world’s most debilitating tropical diseases: lymphatic filariasis ...

This is an updated version of the first post I wrote this year. The scientists in question were looking at ways of recruiting bacteria in the fight against mosquito-borne diseases, such as dengue ...

The Wolbachia bacteria may help stop the spread of the Zika virus. — -- In the fight against the spreading Zika virus, scientists have uncovered an unlikely ally in the form of a bacteria called ...

Deaths due to dengue in the country have dropped by 61.3 per cent to 43 cases compared with 111 recorded last year, Health ...