Tagged With: infectious disease
Targeting Antimicrobial Resistance
By Josephine Hellberg MRSB, DPhil Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics student at the University of Oxford and science policy intern at the Royal Society of Biology. Take part in a tweetchat on AMR from 15:00 – 16:00 GMT on Friday 18th November by following and tweeting with #AntibioticFuture This week is World Antibiotic Awareness Week 2016; which … Continue reading
Categories: Policy, research
Tags: agriculture, AMR, Antibiotics, antimicrobial resistance, farming, infectious disease
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Genetically engineered mosquitoes – the invention of the year?
By Professor Luke Alphey FSB, The Pirbright Institute. Professor Alphey is a finalist for the European Inventor of the Year Award 2015. Each year hundreds of millions of people are stricken by dengue. Though there are thousands of species of mosquito, just one is to blame for major outbreaks of dengue – the Aedes aegypti … Continue reading
Categories: Royal Society of Biology
Tags: dengue, disease control, genetic engineering, infectious disease, malaria, mosquito, vector control
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