Posts Tagged ‘malaria’
Health & Medicine - May 24, 2010 14:32 - 1 Comment
Malaria holds steady as global temps rise
U. FLORIDA (US)—Global warming is expected to have little effect on the spread of malaria, largely due to current control efforts and development, according to a new study. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 10, 2010 12:02 - 0 Comments
Enzyme method may immobilize malaria
MCGILL (CAN)—A multinational team may have identified a target for a new malaria treatment by disabling digestive enzymes in malaria parasites, which are transmitted by mosquito bites. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Feb 23, 2010 18:40 - 0 Comments
Down dengue fever with flightless mosquitoes
UC IRVINE (US)—A new strain of mosquitoes in which the females can’t fly may help curb the transmission of dengue fever, one of the world’s most pressing public health issues. (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 22, 2010 12:34 - 0 Comments
New type of genetic variation discovered
VANDERBILT (US)—The unexpected discovery of a new type of genetic variation suggests that natural selection—the force that drives evolution—is both more powerful and more complex than scientists have thought. (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 3, 2010 14:05 - 1 Comment
Better traps are bad news for mosquitoes
YALE (US)—Researchers have discovered more than two dozen scent receptors in malaria-transmitting mosquitoes that detect compounds in human sweat, a finding that may help scientists to develop new ways to combat a disease that kills 1 million people annually. (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 2, 2010 12:08 - 0 Comments
Virus entices insects to spread infection
PENN STATE—A common plant virus lures aphids to infected plants by making the plants more attractive. When the insects taste the plant, they quickly leave for tastier, healthier ones, rapidly transmitting the disease. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 12, 2010 18:25 - 4 Comments
Mosquito surveillance on the cheap
EMORY—Researchers believe they have come up with the most inexpensive and efficient way to monitor adult mosquitoes and the deadly diseases they carry, including malaria and West Nile virus. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Dec 21, 2009 11:39 - 0 Comments
Phone records predict malaria’s next move
U. FLORIDA (US)—Researchers at work on a malaria elimination study in Africa have become the first to predict the spread of the disease using cell phone records. (more…)
Society & Culture - Dec 18, 2009 16:44 - 0 Comments
Orphanages: ‘viable option’ or ‘last resort’?
DUKE (US)—Children in institutional orphanages fare as well or better than those who live in the community, new research shows. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Nov 18, 2009 14:07 - 1 Comment
Stopping Lyme disease with tick saliva
YALE (US)—A protein found in the saliva of ticks helps protect mice from developing Lyme disease, researchers have discovered. The findings may spur development of a new vaccine against infection from Lyme disease, which is spread through tick bites. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Sep 10, 2009 12:51 - 1 Comment
Low-cost bed nets prove priceless
Malaria, which is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes, is common among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa and is a major contributing factor to low birth weights and infant deaths in that region.
Health & Medicine - May 13, 2009 10:16 - 1 Comment
Taming mosquitoes with smell-stopping fungus
PENN STATE (US)—In an effort to stop the spread of malaria, a team of entomologists at Penn State is looking for an insect disease that will infect mosquitoes and impair their sense of smell—in effect, taking away their appetite to feed on humans. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 6, 2009 18:33 - 0 Comments
Researchers zero in on malaria’s lethal skill
PRINCETON (US)—The parasite that causes malaria has a very deadly talent. By switching off an important amino acid in its quest to invade the human body, the parasite may trigger a more critical and lethal phase of the disease. The findings could pave the way to more effective Malaria treatments. (more…)
