An Anopheles stephensi mosquito is obtaining a blood meal from a human host through its pointed proboscis. Note the droplet of blood being expelled from the abdomen after having engorged itself on its host’s blood. This mosquito is a known malarial vector with a distribution that ranges from Egypt all the way to China.

Tech similar to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines might prevent one of the world's deadliest diseases

Researchers create an effective RNA vaccine for malaria 

A soft child's horse toy with robotic skin around it's legs

Light and adaptable robotic skins can turn inanimate objects into multifunctional robots

Robotic skins might enable the next generation of space exploration

melting

Researchers from Yale and Oregon Health and Science universities have now used this approach to treat chronic myeloid leukemia cells

New types of drugs, called PROTACs, melt cancer-causing proteins away

Tarot card image of Grace Hopper surrounded by computers and machines

She recorded the first computer bug when a moth got caught in a relay switch

Rear Admiral Amazing Grace Hopper taught computers English

Family of rhesus macaques 

Less than 50 of our 20,000 genes are unique to humans. What separates us from monkeys? 

Humans are two developmental stages away from monkeys

Yale University