Explore the complex balance of risks and benefits in gene drives, a powerful tool in genetic engineering and disease control.

Ashley Birungi, a laboratory scientist with Target Malaria Uganda Rita Mwima, a Statistics and GIS Officer with Target ...

Malaria elimination remains uneven and fragile across many endemic settings. Despite substantial scientific progress and decades of investment, several ...

Long before they land, mosquitoes are reading our body signals from afar. Find out if you feature high on the bloodsuckers' ...

The Federal Government has unveiled plans to establish the Nigeria Genomic City, a landmark initiative aimed at transforming the country into a knowledge- and innovation-driven economy by harnessing ...

The Ebola outbreak could halt a pioneering UK-backed kidney transplant programme that made the operation available in Uganda for the first time.

Nompilo Maleka is no ordinary granny. The 115-year-old great-grandmother from Driekop outside Burgersfort in Limpopo still wakes up early in the morning, makes her bed, washes dishes and cooks. A copy ...

Nompilo Maleka is no ordinary granny. The 115-year-old great-grandmother from Driekop outside Burgersfort in Limpopo still wakes up early in the morning, makes her bed, washes dishes and cooks. A copy ...

Aside from swelling, delayed growth and infections, one of the symptoms people living with Sickle-Cell Disease often struggle with is pain episodes, which can last from hours to days. SCD, a serious ...

The early-stage trial of a potential novel nonartemisinin malaria drug found it rapidly killed malaria parasites and was ...

A recently introduced malaria vaccine is helping reduce severe illness in children across Africa. Children younger than 5 ...