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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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Malaria control drains financial and human resources
Professor Robert Sinden is head of malaria cell biology at The Jenner Institute, University of Oxford. He will be speaking at the Biology Week Debate: ‘Malaria eradication – Can we do it? Should we do it?’ at the Royal Institution on Thursday 16th October. Together with HIV and tuberculosis, malaria imposes one of the highest … Continue reading
Categories: Royal Society of Biology
Tags: africa, disease, elimination, malaria, mosquito, vector
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