In the battle against malaria, science is taking a true 360-degree approach. There are techniques that render mosquitoes immune to the parasites (and give them oddly glowing red eyes) so that they can't pass the disease on to humans; a breath test to diagnose the disease in humans; and an effort to make malaria-carrying mosquitos infertile. But oddly, according to researchers at Imperial College London, one major component to malaria research has been absent – comparing the number of parasites transmitted in a mosquito's bite to disease transmission, rather than just looking at the number of bites themselves. So that's exactly what they set out to study.
.. Continue Reading With malaria, bugs matter more than bitesCategory: Biology
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