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Meddling in mosquitoes' sex lives could help stop the spread of malaria, says study
Stopping male mosquitoes from sealing their sperm inside females with a ‘mating plug’ could prevent mosquitoes from reproducing, and offer a potential new way to combat malaria, say scientists publishing new results in PLoS Biology on 22 December. The new … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Malaria
Tagged anopheles gambiae, Biology, discovery, eggs, females, flaminia, imperial college london, insemination, life sciences, lifetime, male mosquitoes, mosquito, mosquitoes, populations, proteins, rival males, scientists, seminal fluids, sperm storage, transmission of malaria
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Hopes for prophylaxis and therapy for Chikungunya
Researchers at the Institut Pasteur and Inserm, working together with Laboratoire Français du Fractionnement et des Biotechnologies (LFB), have managed to treat and prevent the Chikungunya virus infection in animals by purifying antibodies directed against this virus using plasma from … Continue reading
Tagged antibodies, bloc, blood plasma, Chikungunya virus, department of health, efficacy, epidemic, french department, infectious diseases, inserm, institut pasteur, journal of infectious diseases, microbes, pharmaceutical industry, population, prophylaxis, reunion island, scientists, virus infection, vitro
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Research Output in Developing Countries Reveals 194% Increase in Five Years
The partners of Research4Life announced on 2 July 2009 at the World Conference of Science Journalists 2009 in London that a new research impact analysis has demonstrated a dramatic rise in research output by scientists in the developing world since … Continue reading
