Earlier this year Denise Wellings, our study director at LITE, The Liverpool Insect Testing Establishment, gave us a tour of one of our insectaries. Our team are at the forefront of the fight against vector-borne diseases, such as Malaria, which impact the health of millions.

Did you know how the Anopheles species was named? Find out below! #DYK #EndMalaria #Malaria #ZeroMalaria

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Arne Slot’s Liverpool in the PL: ▫️Most points [50] ▫️Most goals [50] ▫️Most wins [15] ▫️Fewest defeats [1] ▫️Highest GD [+30] ▫️Most clean sheets [9] ▫️PL top scorer [18 - Salah] ▫️PL most assists [13 - Salah] This is not luck. This is where we belong. 👊🏼

The beta-triketone, nitisinone, kills insecticide-resistant mosquitoes through cuticular uptake biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_zoology

biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We show that #nitisinone kills both susceptible and insecticide-resistant Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes through cuticular absorption.

Glad this is finally out. Using pharmacokinetic modeling we show that #nitisinone, an FDA-approved drug 4 #Tyrosinemia & #Alkaptonuria, kills #Anopheles mosquitoes, outperforming #Ivermectin. Grateful to all primary author’s & fantastic collaborators! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Delighted to be nominated for a Papin Prize in Contribution to Knowledge Exchange — and even more thrilled to be shortlisted alongside my brilliant colleague Isabel Saldanha! LSTM Honoured to be part of this amazing community. 🔗tinyurl.com/2b7asbtn #PapinPrize

It’s time to reimagine the fight against malaria🦟 Stay tuned for our #WorldMalariaDay campaign next week highlighting challenges threatening progress against the disease and innovations that could drive change. #WMD2025 #MalariaEndsWithUs RBM Partnership World Health Organization (WHO)

Malaria still claims a life every single minute. Saffron Mackey @lstmnews is reimagining the fight against #malaria by developing innovative vector control approaches 🔬🧬 #WMD2025 #MalariaEndsWithUs

Proud to share our work at LSTM using mosquito blood meal metabolism to fight #malaria at the source. Thanks @GeneDriveNet for the feature this #WorldMalariaDay! #MalariaEndsWithUs #WMD2025 #EndMalaria

Anopheles #funestus🦟 has been historically understudied, yet it’s an important #malaria vector in sub-Saharan Africa. 🌍 🎥 Charlotte Quinn @lstmnews tells us about her work to understand this species and help #endmalaria. #WMD2025 #MalariaEndsWithUs

New paper out in Parasites & Vectors! We show that nitisinone, a repurposed β-triketone, kills Anopheles gambiae via tarsal contact, even in pyrethroid-resistant strains. doi.org/10.1186/s13071… #VectorBiology #Nitisinone #IRS #PublicHealth #malaria

So proud!! In their new study, Zachary Stavrou - Dowd et al. demonstrate the potential of the #endectocide nitisinone as a powerful new weapon against resistant mosquitoes. Big step forward in #vectorcontrol. #Malaria #InsecticideResistance #GlobalHealth #Entomology #ParasitesAndVectors

Drug Makes Both Human Blood and Surface Contact Lethal to Mosquitoes A drug that makes human blood lethal to mosquitoes also acts as a potent contact insecticide absorbed through the feet. A new study led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine shows that mosquitoes are killed

Source: parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

LSTM’s blog post on our latest paper exploring how nitisinone kills malaria mosquitoes, even the resistant ones, through tarsal contact. From rare disease drug to vector control tool. Blog: lstm.ac/47pHgTM Paper: doi.org/10.1186/s130 #malaria

🦟A rare-disease drug may help fight a global killer! Nitisinone (approved for hereditary tyrosinemia type 1) can kill insecticide-resistant mosquitoes via cuticular uptake. 💡Research in #RareDiseases can spark solutions for common threats like #malaria parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…