malaria
Mosquito massacre: Can we safely tackle malaria with a CRISPR gene drive?
CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing quickly decimated two caged populations of malaria-bearing mosquitoes (Anopheles gambiae) in a recent study, introducing a new ...
GLP podcast and video: 10 myths about modern farming, debunked; New malaria and polio vaccines could save thousands of lives
Many harmful myths about farming persist on social media. Let's explore some of the most common falsehoods about agriculture you're ...
GLP podcast: Mexico’s activist-inspired glyphosate ban; Anti-GMO Twitter bots on the loose; Malaria vaccine coming soon?
Mexico seems determined to ban the weedkiller glyphosate and biotech crops, drawing intense opposition from the country's farmers. Twitter bots ...
Deaths in less developed countries set to surge from malaria, HIV and TB linked to COVID-19 disruptions
Over the next five years, deaths from [HIV, tuberculosis and malaria] could rise by as much as 10%, 20% and ...
Exploring gene drive’s role in fight against malaria
An international initiative has formed to ensure that gene drive technology gets a chance to prove its mettle in the ...
It’s disease-carrying mosquito season, but coronavirus cripples response
Monitoring and killing mosquitoes is a key public health task used to curb the spread of deadly disease. In recent ...
Mosquito spit might be a universal vaccine ‘Holy Grail’ – preventing everything from malaria to Zika
Her idea revolved around mosquito spit. Building on the work of colleagues and other scientists, [Jessica] Manning, a clinical researcher ...
‘Serious side effects’: FDA revokes emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 treatment
The Food and Drug Administration on [June 15] said it had withdrawn an emergency approval for use of the malaria ...
Hydroxychloroquine found ‘no better than placebo pills’ in preventing COVID-19 in high risk people, New England Journal of Medicine study finds
A malaria drug President Donald Trump took to try to prevent COVID-19 proved ineffective for that in the first large, ...
Fighting malaria: Genetically modified parasites offer promising but incomplete protection
Two clinical trials, in which subjects were vaccinated with genetically engineered Plasmodium parasites and later exposed to the malaria-causing microbe, ...
‘Enormous potential’: Recently discovered microbe could protect mosquitoes from malaria
Scientists have discovered a microbe that completely protects mosquitoes from being infected with malaria. The team in Kenya and the ...
Shedding light on ‘bizarre’ 1930s procedure in which doctors injected malaria into human brains
A new paper in a neurosurgery journal sheds light on one of the most bizarre and shocking medical procedures ever ...
‘Self-destruct mechanism’ could lead to malaria vaccine
While a vaccine would be the ideal method for eliminating malaria from the human population, all attempts thus far to ...
Anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine linked to higher death rate in VA coronavirus patient study
An anti-malarial drug President Trump has aggressively promoted to treat covid-19 had no benefit and was linked to higher rates ...
‘Disaster for public trust in vaccines’: African malaria study conducted without patient consent
A scathing opinion piece in the BMJ is accusing the World Health Organization of conducting a pilot program in Africa ...
Genetically modified mosquitoes are a small price to pay for malaria eradication
Will opponents of gene engineering deny prevention to suffering families? ...
Podcast: GMO insects loose in the wild? Inside scoop on controversial Oxitec mosquito in Brazil
The tiny mosquito is a nuisance in the industrialized world, yet in developing countries it is a ruthless killer, spreading ...
Gene drives and other ‘out-of-the-box approaches’ can eradicate malaria by 2050, scientists say
“For too long, malaria eradication has been a distant dream, but now we have evidence that malaria can and should ...
Much more than an ‘itchy pest’: Mosquitoes have played a major role in human history
Fifty-two billion people—almost half of the cumulative human population—are thought to have perished at the hands of a creature no ...
Growing malaria drug resistance worldwide threatens to be ‘disastrous’
It’s not clear why, but the Greater Mekong Subregion—Cambodia, southern China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam—is a major source of ...
Gene drives: Why the best option for fighting mosquito-borne diseases is the ‘mosquito itself’
Gene drives are now a viable method of fighting mosquito-borne disease ...
Viewpoint: Gene drive technology could eliminate malaria. But we must get it right, first
People don’t give people malaria: The 460 species of mosquitoes in the genus Anopheles do, and researchers are taking aim at them ...
Gene drive alternative uses CRISPR to control insect populations by creating sterile males
Scientists at the University of California (UC) San Diego and UC Berkeley have developed a new approach to controlling disease-carrying ...
Viewpoint: An argument against using genetically modified mosquitos to fight malaria in Africa
Some scientists have proposed genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes as a solution to controlling malaria, a scourge that has been around ...
Can we eradicate malaria with promising new gene drive technique?
Malaria is among the world’s worst scourges. In 2016 the disease, which is caused by a parasite and transmitted by ...
Talking Biotech: Artemisinin—the malaria treatment that could help prevent 400,000 deaths a year
University of York's Dr. Ian Graham joins Kevin Folta to discuss how the plant-derived compound artemesia could help beat back ...
Seeking medicine from the plants of Uganda
Researchers have long looked to the plants of our world to solve many of the medical problems we face. But ...
