Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

Sequencing hundreds of Anopheles funestus mosquitoes provides new insights into the evolutionary patterns of this important human malaria-transmitting species. New research into the genetics of ...

In a new study, an international team of researchers — including UC Merced Distinguished Professor Emeritus Mark Aldenderfer — reconstructed the evolutionary history and global spread of malaria over ...

A study published this week in the journal Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution reveals a new hypothesis on the evolution of hundreds of species of malaria - including the form that is deadly to ...

As resistance increased, humans began moving into high-risk areas. Around 14,000 to 13,000 years ago, people started living ...

Kenya's decades-long fight against the killer malaria disease is facing a bigger threat from the region. This follows the discovery of a new species of mosquitoes called Anopheles stephansi that has ...

Malaria in pregnancy can seriously harm both the mother and the unborn baby, especially if the infection is not treated early ...